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> Jen Easterly, Biden’s appointed director of CISA, swiftly made it clear that she would continue to shift resources in the agency to combat the spread of dange
by pneumic 4y ago
> Jen Easterly, Biden’s appointed director of CISA, swiftly made it clear that she would continue to shift resources in the agency to combat the spread of dangerous forms of information on social media. “One could argue we’re in the business of critical infrastructure, and the most critical infrastructure is our cognitive infrastructure, so building that resilience to misinformation and disinformation, I think, is incredibly important,” said Easterly, speaking at a conference in November 2021.
How can anyone who was rightly against the authoritarian insanity during the War On Terror justify this sort of thinking? "Trump is bad/election deniers are bad/anti-vaxxers are bad" is not enough. This can and will be spun right around and used against you.
- anonAndOn 4y agoBecause Moscow doesn't have to beat the US on the battlefield of Ukraine if they can ignite a US civil war and force a military withdrawal assymetrically.
- colpabar 4y agoYeah just like how the islamic terrorists were gonna do 9/11 again but worse unless we gave the feds more power, right?
- anonAndOn 4y agoWas Tucker as pro Wahhabi as he is pro Putin?[0] [0]https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1585655927516139520 https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/158565592751613952...
- Lammy 4y agoFun fact: Tucker's dad was longest-serving director of the US Information Agency's official propaganda network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Carlson#Voice_of_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Carlson#Voice_of_America
- themitigating 4y agoAnd now his son basically has the same job
- 0x445442 4y agoMoscow doesn't have to do a thing. Our psycopathic leadership are doing just fine on their own.
- addingadimensio 4y agoWar is good, buy bonds
- comte7092 4y agoI’m not sure there is that much overlap between the two groups.
- freejazz 4y agoYou seem to assume this will work by censorship, but I haven't seen anything to substantiate that. So as far as I can tell, there will be more information and how is that a bad thing?
- kansface 4y agoThe article mentioned direct government action to censor, remove content and/or people from platforms, no?
- freejazz 4y agoI did not see that in the article, feel free to quote it. I'd bet it isn't because it'd be a slam dunk 1st Amd case
- pessimizer 4y agoThis would be worthwhile if you hadn't read the article and already decided that twitter execs meeting with DHS weekly to discuss specific accounts and what should be done about them is not censorship.
- freejazz 4y agoThe US gave a report of what was misinformation and requested that social media companies respond with a report of what, if anything, was done about it. What were the repercussions of Twitter didn't do anything? Oh, none? Okay.
- pessimizer 4y ago> The US gave a report of what was misinformation The US does this weekly, and about specific people and subjects that it wants to communicate its concern over. > What were the repercussions of Twitter didn't do anything? Oh, none? Okay. Why are you convinced that you have some sort of inside information about repercussions twitter may or may not have when the government approaches them with concerns about content? Who convinced you?
- ganoushoreilly 4y agoIf you really want to go down the rabbit hole, look at where Jen has worked in the past, what organizations specifically. One of them performed the exact operations she's trying to prevent.