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> With enough propaganda, you can make people believe anything, even that Snowden is a "traitor" to the US. When you do things like https://www.scmp.com/news/c
by lern_too_spel 6y ago
> With enough propaganda, you can make people believe anything, even that Snowden is a "traitor" to the US.
When you do things like https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1266892/exclusive-nsa-targeted-chinas-tsinghua-university-extensive-hacking https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1266892/exclusive-ns..., no propaganda is necessary.
- Talanes 6y agoThat is horrible. Wasting tax dollars spying on schools.
- season2episode3 6y agoA country’s premier research university seems like a pretty normal espionage target.
- PostOnce 6y agoDoes Lincoln Lab count as MIT? Is it really a "school" per se? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Lincoln_Laboratory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Lincoln_Laboratory It'd be pretty surprising if no one was attempting to spy on such organizations I don't know what Tsinghua does but I can imagine a top school doing similar government-funded work anywhere
- bboston7 6y ago> It'd be pretty surprising if no one was attempting to spy on such organizations Just last year a professor and two Chinese nationals at Harvard were indicted for something similar: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-and-two-chinese-nationals-charged-three-separate-china-related https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-...