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NSA and GHCQ Employing Shills To Poison Web Forum Discourse
Advocatus Diaboli writes with this excerpt from an article by Glenn Greenwald on the pervasiveness of shills poisoning web forums: "One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. It's time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with the relevant documents.. ... Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the Internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable. To see how extremist these programs are, just consider the tactics they boast of using to achieve those ends: 'false flag operations' (posting material to the Internet and falsely attributing it to someone else), fake victim blog posts (pretending to be a victim of the individual whose reputation they want to destroy), and posting 'negative information' on various forums."
I guess Cryptome was right. Check out the the training materials provided to future forum spies.
Seen the Snowden character assassination even here on Slashdot. "Look at that traitor with the dodgy face, not the highly unconstitutional government surveillance program which basically takes a huge dump over your privacy rights!"
What you've just stated is a "dodgy fact." Apparently you can invent pretty much any claim about the constitution, the actual law be damned.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Try to focus on arguments of fact, not arguments of person or source.
I find that facts often count for little and are often moderated down if they don't conform to the prevailing politics of the moment on Slashdot.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Soviet / Russian agents were engaged in the most subtle intelligence operations long, long before that.
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As to "sheltering" Snowden, it seems he was in contact with the Russians before his arrival in Moscow, and that his arrival was no surprise. In the view of a number of former Soviet bloc intelligence officers, Snowden was collaborating with them for some time.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Fine. Unfortunately that doesn't change the court rulings that have found the NSA and FBI actions that many find so disagreeable as being legal. As far as I have read they are complying with the law.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Assassinate "Assange's character"? That hardly seems possible, the target is too small to hit.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Apparently the idea of simply being an informed citizen never entered your mind.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Plenty of people that have worked with him over the years have made that pretty clear, not to mention his utterances.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
That is disingenuous. You just did question my information, which is typically from ordinary newspapers, magazines, and their websites.
I'll return the favor and question your judgment as well. Sauce for the goose ...
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Can you point out where the law authorizes ordinary people to engage in violent jihad, bombings, and DDOS attacks?
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
I'm curious, A., does any of that change Assange's long and fairly well known history of abusing the people around him?
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
If the posts name starts with 'c' and ends with "fjord" is going to be a shill post.
"+3 insightful"?
My bad, I didn't realize the two minute hate was in progress, and I have been designated "Emmanuel Goldstein" . Seems to be a lot longer than two minutes though.
Carry on.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell