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26 Jun 2015, 10:12 pm

FirstLook.org wrote:
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....

FirstLook.org: "How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations" (February 24, 2014)
https://www.firstlook.org/theintercept/ ... nipulation

Glenn Greenwald's reports of government plans "to monitor and influence internet communications, and covertly infiltrate online communities in order to sow dissension and disseminate false information" appears to be as prescient as it was interesting just 16 months ago.


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26 Jun 2015, 11:07 pm

Haha how do you know Fox News isn't doing just that?



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26 Jun 2015, 11:56 pm

A few weeks ago Obama wanted to issue an executive order banning internet discussion of firearms under the cloak of ITAR.....

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/419489/obama-administration-supports-free-internet-except-when-it-comes-gun-enthusiasts


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27 Jun 2015, 2:00 am

The word, "Constitution', is on the NSA Hot List.

People are buying Elections, Government is a Private Business now.

The main fear is a Third Party rising. Someone telling people that this is their country, under their laws, and the Constitution gives them the right to vote out the entire government, and form something more to their liking.

Remember, a landslide election in America is winning by 1.5%.

A 10% of the vote Party would rule.

The People do not have the Billions, the Public Relations Machine, but they do have the vote.

All they need is a platform.



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27 Jun 2015, 8:22 am

Inventor wrote:
The word, "Constitution', is on the NSA Hot List....

This reminds me of what comedian Ruth Buzzi Tweeted on Jan. 21, 2014:

RUTH BUZZI ‏@Ruth_A_Buzzi 21 Jan 2014
Maybe we should email one another the Constitution so the government would read it.


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28 Jun 2015, 9:18 am

Have you spotted a government troll online?


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03 Jul 2015, 8:16 am

ActivistPost.com wrote:
Have you ever come across someone on the Internet that you suspected was a paid government troll? Well, there is a very good chance that you were not imagining things.

Thanks to Edward Snowden, we now have solid proof that paid government trolls are using "psychology-based influence techniques" on social media websites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Documents leaked by Snowden also reveal that government agents have been conducting denial-of-service attacks, flooding social media websites with thinly veiled propaganda and have been purposely attempting to warp public discourse online. If we do not stand up and object to this kind of Orwellian behavior, it is only going to get worse and worse....

ActivistPost.com: "Government trolls are using 'Psychology-Based Influence Techniques'' in social media" (July 2, 2015)
http://www.activistpost.com/2015/07/gov ... ology.html


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