A classic authoritarian move: smash the thing, and then blame your out-group for why it's broken.

· Bits and Bobs 11/18/24

Surprisingly effective because most systems take a bit of time to break.

The breakage is not a direct obvious causal thing.

It's plausibly deniable, able to spread FUD about.

Systems are not objects; they require a layer of indirection to understand what is happening and how they react to a given action.