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There's no government it the world that doesn't do this. If you are a multi-national corporation, you deal with it.

srean 4y ago
That is quite a sweeping and bold statement that I would like to form my own opinion about. Do you have any links to reading material ? Just to be clear I am not disagreeing or agreeing with you yet.
- exolymph 4y ago
  Snowden revelations: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...
  - themitigating 4y ago
    That's only one governments actions, the poster stated all governments.
    - exolymph 4y ago
      It's not just one gov't, it's Five Eyes. I guess if you're uncomfortable extrapolating from there, that's your business.
- kornhole 4y ago
  I am also shocked at such allegation. Intelligence agencies are usually quite transparent about the deployment and identities of their agents. If someone can't prove it, there is no reason to think governments would do such a thing. They exist to protect us and uphold values of free speech. Seriously though, information gathering and manipulation are some of their main duties. Any intelligence agency would be negligent if it was not trying to infiltrate centralized social media companies.
  - srean 4y ago
    You have a very legit point, in fact I mentioned that I don't agree or disagree with PP yet. With open source intelligence sourcing being as active as they are, was wondering if this phenomenon has been studied and or reported. I will not be surprised if the allegations are true, perhaps with a less sweeping scope, not that it makes it anymore palatable. The world seems to be being eaten piecemeal by populist authoritarianism.
    - kornhole 4y ago
      We live in a world where the powerful have very good privacy and security and the masses have high transparency. It should be the other way around. While we are in this state, we can generally only theorize about what is happening at high levels. We see a few leaks from time to time.
tpmx 4y ago
There is no government in the world that doesn't force Twitter to put their agents on payroll?
stjohnswarts 4y ago
Obviously but this story is about the Indian government doing that and providing details of such. Hopefully twitter can learn from such espionage and better silo off departments from people. Some tech companies have almost no walls between getting user information and the average employee.

That is quite a sweeping and bold statement that I would like to form my own opinion about. Do you have any links to reading material ? Just to be clear I am not disagreeing or agreeing with you yet.

exolymph 4y ago
Snowden revelations: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...
- themitigating 4y ago
  That's only one governments actions, the poster stated all governments.
  - exolymph 4y ago
    It's not just one gov't, it's Five Eyes. I guess if you're uncomfortable extrapolating from there, that's your business.
kornhole 4y ago
I am also shocked at such allegation. Intelligence agencies are usually quite transparent about the deployment and identities of their agents. If someone can't prove it, there is no reason to think governments would do such a thing. They exist to protect us and uphold values of free speech. Seriously though, information gathering and manipulation are some of their main duties. Any intelligence agency would be negligent if it was not trying to infiltrate centralized social media companies.
- srean 4y ago
  You have a very legit point, in fact I mentioned that I don't agree or disagree with PP yet. With open source intelligence sourcing being as active as they are, was wondering if this phenomenon has been studied and or reported. I will not be surprised if the allegations are true, perhaps with a less sweeping scope, not that it makes it anymore palatable. The world seems to be being eaten piecemeal by populist authoritarianism.
  - kornhole 4y ago
    We live in a world where the powerful have very good privacy and security and the masses have high transparency. It should be the other way around. While we are in this state, we can generally only theorize about what is happening at high levels. We see a few leaks from time to time.

tpmx 4y ago

There is no government in the world that doesn't force Twitter to put their agents on payroll?

stjohnswarts 4y ago

Obviously but this story is about the Indian government doing that and providing details of such. Hopefully twitter can learn from such espionage and better silo off departments from people. Some tech companies have almost no walls between getting user information and the average employee.