Information Poisoning is real.
It is as or more dangerous than physical, material world poisoning as in say Flint MI water supply because the effects are cumulative, the disease progressive but the disease is unrecognized.
Information poisoning is a truly evil weapon.
We the People don't die from information poisoning right away.
We get slowly dumber as our cognitive capacity degrades. Our social and economic planning goes awry, and we can't tell why, because this is caused by unrecognised errors in data. We develop ideologically segregated information distribution channels.
Information Poisoning works on the same principle as a "database integrity attack."
In IT security a DB integrity involves the insertion of errors into data
in such a way they are difficult to detect making such attacks difficult or impossible to detect or defend against.
It important to recognise that what goes in individual minds, and in networked social organisma is Information Processing. All life is information processing. Biological computation stores memories somewhat differently than non biological intelligence, but the storage medium is irrelevant.
Whether the medium is organic or inorganic, unrecognized errors in memory used in calculation produce errors of increasing magnitude with distance from the calculation.
Information Poisoning is only ONE tactic enabled by anonymous insecure networking.
It is ONE reason why we need to create a secure identity based information distribution system. (pic related)
The way we fix it is by replacing the irremediably insecure internet with the information distribution system of the future.
IP damage is cumulative damage, for individual and species.
Information Poisoning symptoms are diminished cognitive capacity, memory degradation, and for civilizations this leads increasing irreconcilable divisions, conflicts and collapse.
We the Peoples decisions can be no better than the information they are based on, and that has been sabotaged
The treatment is accurate error corrected information. Advanced computational Civilization rests on secure networking.
Without this individual and groups can be poisoned anytime.
IP is ONE of the exploits permitted by secure networks. Our opponents use them all.