Denial of Discourse Attacks
(draft) What do you do when some parties don't want discourse?
You've probably heard of Denial of Service Attacks on the Internet, or their angrier cousins who are harder to track and stop, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks.
There are many tactics, most notably Flood the Zone with Shit, which is also known as the Gish Gallop and the Firehose of Falsehood.
The Big Lie. This is what a Post-Truth world looks like.
This article is cross-posted on Substack here, Medium here and LinkedIn here. It's also here in my Brain.