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Ok so war propaganda is illegal but what changed in 2013? Did the laws change or did we just stop caring to enforce them?

by mulmen 5y ago

riedel 5y ago
The act "geoblocked" propaganda that was ment e.g. for us European's from being received in the US. I think the argument is by "unblocking" it for US audiences there is indirectly a legalization of national propaganda. Particularly as such propaganda is excempt from the freedom of information act, it might be rather hard to prove that such propaganda only targeted an international audience (which is quite aware that Hollywood movies are all propaganda for the American way of live, I guess)
- emsign 5y ago
  I wonder if some Youtube videos by Deutsche Welle get blocked in Germany for a similar reason. I'll have to investigate that.
- fundad 5y ago
  Laws are just norms, enforcement is done with intention
walterbell 5y ago
U.S. legalization of propaganda lead to an industrial-scale "grassroots PR" industry for use by any buyer in the "nudge" market, including a sizable subset of the global Fortune 500. This industry has since been active in online venues with meaningful audiences, http://www.techsoc.com/grassroots.html http://www.techsoc.com/grassroots.html & https://twitter.com/evoleadership/status/761959456624082944 https://twitter.com/evoleadership/status/761959456624082944 2010 paper made a case for Smith-Mundt act changes, https://web.archive.org/web/20220107123332/https://www.hsdl.org/?view=&did=812587 https://web.archive.org/web/20220107123332/https://www.hsdl.... > The cyber world will progressively become both a boon and a bane to IO personnel, allowing them to reach a global audience, but also providing a large vulnerability to enemy deception and PSYOP efforts that will require a near immediate response to worldwide, operational events .. Update US Influence Operations doctrine to .. develop TTPs for employing PSYOP, MILDEC, and Public Affairs using the new cyber technology. Once developed, the TTPs must .. allow the military IO operator an avenue for developing proficiency in the release of “precision guided messages” to foreign audiences. 2018 analysis, https://web.archive.org/web/20180720063648if_/http://repository.essex.ac.uk/21204/1/final%20proofs%20-%20accepted%20-%20corrected%20errors%20Dec.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20180720063648if_/http://reposit... > ..government bureaucracy advanced measures aimed at controlling the global online environment. Commercial companies further exploited their geographical flexibility, minimal accountability and ‘black boxed’ practises, to profit from this desire to side-step awkward bureaucracy designed to protect the public ... the ‘merging’ of PSYOP and PA raised concern in academia and beyond ... This article engages in deep exploration of struggles between subfields of propaganda. It shows how PSYOP and Information Operations (IO) personnel struggled against Public Affairs over the adaptation of systems.. Other search terms: Information Operations (IO) Influence Operations (IO) Inform and Influence Activities (IIA) Interactive Internet Activities (IIA)
- 34679 5y ago
  AKA "We're going to need to practice on someone." >allow the military IO operator an avenue for developing proficiency in the release of “precision guided messages” to foreign audiences.

Ok so war propaganda is illegal but what changed in 2013? Did the laws change or did we just stop caring to enforce them?

by mulmen 5y ago

Ok so war propaganda is illegal but what changed in 2013? Did the laws change or did we just stop caring to enforce them?

riedel 5y ago

The act "geoblocked" propaganda that was ment e.g. for us European's from being received in the US. I think the argument is by "unblocking" it for US audiences there is indirectly a legalization of national propaganda. Particularly as such propaganda is excempt from the freedom of information act, it might be rather hard to prove that such propaganda only targeted an international audience (which is quite aware that Hollywood movies are all propaganda for the American way of live, I guess)

emsign 5y ago
I wonder if some Youtube videos by Deutsche Welle get blocked in Germany for a similar reason. I'll have to investigate that.
fundad 5y ago
Laws are just norms, enforcement is done with intention

walterbell 5y ago

U.S. legalization of propaganda lead to an industrial-scale "grassroots PR" industry for use by any buyer in the "nudge" market, including a sizable subset of the global Fortune 500. This industry has since been active in online venues with meaningful audiences, http://www.techsoc.com/grassroots.html http://www.techsoc.com/grassroots.html & https://twitter.com/evoleadership/status/761959456624082944 https://twitter.com/evoleadership/status/761959456624082944 2010 paper made a case for Smith-Mundt act changes, https://web.archive.org/web/20220107123332/https://www.hsdl.org/?view=&did=812587 https://web.archive.org/web/20220107123332/https://www.hsdl.... > The cyber world will progressively become both a boon and a bane to IO personnel, allowing them to reach a global audience, but also providing a large vulnerability to enemy deception and PSYOP efforts that will require a near immediate response to worldwide, operational events .. Update US Influence Operations doctrine to .. develop TTPs for employing PSYOP, MILDEC, and Public Affairs using the new cyber technology. Once developed, the TTPs must .. allow the military IO operator an avenue for developing proficiency in the release of “precision guided messages” to foreign audiences. 2018 analysis, https://web.archive.org/web/20180720063648if_/http://repository.essex.ac.uk/21204/1/final%20proofs%20-%20accepted%20-%20corrected%20errors%20Dec.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20180720063648if_/http://reposit... > ..government bureaucracy advanced measures aimed at controlling the global online environment. Commercial companies further exploited their geographical flexibility, minimal accountability and ‘black boxed’ practises, to profit from this desire to side-step awkward bureaucracy designed to protect the public ... the ‘merging’ of PSYOP and PA raised concern in academia and beyond ... This article engages in deep exploration of struggles between subfields of propaganda. It shows how PSYOP and Information Operations (IO) personnel struggled against Public Affairs over the adaptation of systems.. Other search terms: Information Operations (IO) Influence Operations (IO) Inform and Influence Activities (IIA) Interactive Internet Activities (IIA)

34679 5y ago
AKA "We're going to need to practice on someone." >allow the military IO operator an avenue for developing proficiency in the release of “precision guided messages” to foreign audiences.