> It's less aggressive than China in terms of being used to control the lives of the entire population of the country, though. I'm not sure that's true. NSA a

> It's less aggressive than China in terms of being used to control the lives of the entire population of the country, though. I'm not sure that's true. NSA and other US domestic surveillance capabilities feed the information it gathers passively (they call it "strategic listening") for DoD to understand how to influence entire countries, continents, world opinion. For example, DARPA has a current program called SMISC: "Social Media in Strategic Communication" - where they are studying next generation technologies for determining how information and opinions spread by social media for US intelligence and military botnets and troll armies to influence opinions at scale. This is just a small evolution over the information domination US intelligence and security has applied domestically and globally for decades.