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… which would be? These are criminals, often state sponsored criminals, that are carrying out literal acts of war against US infrastructure. So what’s the “me
by king_magic 5y ago
… which would be?
These are criminals, often state sponsored criminals, that are carrying out literal acts of war against US infrastructure.
So what’s the “media’s narrative” here?
- someguydave 5y agofork over more powers to the surveillance state
- JKCalhoun 5y agoI don't see why the media would want that. They are finding out that the previous "surveillance state" secretly scooped their phone records.
- iammisc 5y agoThey're trying to explain away inflation causing high meat and oil price
- emc3 5y agoEnd Bitcoin.
- andrewzah 5y agoGood! The world will be better off once we're no longer wasting gargantuan amounts of electricity & processing power on a speculative "currency" that people hoard.
- eli 5y agoWhat stake does "the media" have in bitcoin? It's a fun story to write about.
- rriepe 5y agoNews died. There's no ad-supported news anymore. Anything taking that format is no longer selling ad space to survive. They're selling your opinion. The modern media that takes the form of news isn't news. It's public relations for corporate and government interests. Whenever a story like this "suddenly feels" anything it's being manipulated by those interests.
- user-the-name 5y agoYes, and the sooner the better. Bitcoin is causing massive damage in so many parts of life. Environmental damage, ransomware, fraud, semiconductor shortages. End it now. Stop the madness.
- choward 5y agoWhat atual proof have you seen that it's state sponsored besides the media and government telling you it is?
- JKCalhoun 5y agoWhat would you suggest? You've already dismissed the two largest sources of information. It's actually remarkable that these two sources actually agree on a point.
- choward 5y agoI suggest you not just blindly believing whatever they say unless they provide real solid evidence. Take it into consideration as a hypothesis but don't just assume it's the truth. They have agreed on many points in the past and have been completely wrong.
- JKCalhoun 5y agoReal solid evidence of that nature only comes about once a Snowden.
- slackfan 5y ago"The world is ending because cyberattacks" or something, whatever to get the panic levels up in the public, because hey, panic sells views. Attacks have been ongoing for literal years, but we had a nice war on terror and then a recession to keep banging on about in the news to keep the advertising dollars flowing.
- king_magic 5y agoShould be fun for you to reconcile this worldview when we have a digital 9/11. It’s crystal clear that this is a matter of when, not if. I for one will not be keeping my head in the sand.
- ben509 5y agoThe main narrative is the usual war mongering. You're doing it in your post. These are criminal actions, as they're not endorsed by the state. But it doesn't have to reach the scale of war to be bad. The broader narrative is We Have To Do Something. And that Something is always grant the government more power. Why is it a good thing, for instance, that we're taking "unprecedented" steps? The US has been dealing with ransoms, piracy, extortion since its founding. "From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli," the latter was one of our first expeditions to deal with piracy. As there is plenty of precedent for dealing with this stuff, we should be very skeptical when the government insists it needs new powers.