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What qualifies as influence operations? Does freedom of speech only applies to US citizens and politicians?
by nxx 6y ago
What qualifies as influence operations? Does freedom of speech only applies to US citizens and politicians?
- AnimalMuppet 6y ago"Freedom of speech" is not the same as "freedom to lie on Youtube". Let's say I want to say something pro-China. I have the freedom to do that (even, at the moment, on Youtube). But that's not an influence operation. Let's say I want to consistently say pro-China things, with an idea of moving US opinion and policy, while pretending to be, say, a housewife in Dayton, while I'm really in mainland China working for their government as part of an ongoing campaign. That's an influence operation.