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It is, until you find yourself on the extremist side of someone's book.
by phn 10y ago
It is, until you find yourself on the extremist side of someone's book.
- fucking_tragedy 10y agoReminder that left of center socialist views are considered extremist. As are right-wing libertarian values. Both espouse views that would upend the status quo and both groups are monitored / infiltrated. A forum I kept tabs on for years adopted some of the former views (European style socialism) around the 2008 election. The admin was visited by the FBI and decided that keeping the forum up wasn't worth being hassled by the government. Violence was never promoted or glorified. Martin Luther King was considered a communist threat, so much so that the FBI sent him a letter suggesting he take drastic measures (see: suicide) lest they out him as an adulterer. [0] Occupy Wall St was heavily surveilled as a threat. The FBI worried that it was a front for a violent revolution. [1] Centralization of discussion allows quick suppression of dissenting opinion. [0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-dangers-unchecked-surveillance https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr... [1] http://bordc.org/news/the-fbi-and-occupy-the-surveillance-and-suppression-of-occupy-wall-street/ http://bordc.org/news/the-fbi-and-occupy-the-surveillance-an...
- Senji 10y ago>Occupy Wall St was heavily surveilled as a threat. The FBI worried that it was a front for a violent revolution. It was, that was what Soros was pushing for when he funded it in part.
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- meira 10y agoIt's happening right now in Brazil with left wing and social movements.