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The Russians utilized historically divisive issues on social media in order to interfere, and it is not clear congress can do anything WRT social media in order
by 18pfsmt 7y ago
The Russians utilized historically divisive issues on social media in order to interfere, and it is not clear congress can do anything WRT social media in order to minimize the Russians' ability to continue this activity. The social media companies can (and have) taken steps to mitigate. I have been advising my friends to stay away from platforms that have "real name" policies, and to my less educated friends/family (they are easily fooled) to stay away from social media all together.
I'm currently reading The Sword And The Shield The Mitrokhin Archive And The Secret History Of The KGB and they have been at this for over 100 years. It's ~700 pages, mostly dry, but completely revealing.
- ryacko 7y agoMartin Luther King Jr... WAS A COMMUNIST AGENT WITH KNOWN LINKS TO OTHER COMMUNIST RADICALS! There is a greater context to the Mitrokhin Archive, you know.
- 18pfsmt 7y agoTo the dead-reply to my comment, I will just say that MLK may have had collectivist leanings. He did not have the privilege to consider principles, and he was standing on the shoulders of giants, like Frederick Douglass. Those promoting central-planning, "give D.C. power/ blame America first" crowd have no idea what they are promoting. In the 60s, it was still unclear if a soviet style system could remain solvent, even if they remained so through intellectual property theft (Ian Flemming was writing about a real problem). They couldn't, but they developed this soft-power technique to influence others via propaganda (e.g. "micro-influencers") during Lenin's time that still prevails to this day (it's what Huxley and Orwell were attempting to characterize).
- 18pfsmt 7y agodang, can you explain why my sibling comment is flagged, other than user activity? It makes no sense.