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US and UK Military Contractors Created Plan for Global Censorship in 2018
- lenerdenator 3y agoAnd as everyone who has been conscious between March 2020 and now can attest to, it's a very effective system. (this is severely sarcastic)
- asynchronous 3y ago[flagged]
- vore 3y agoBut of course you can clearly see through all the propaganda, unlike the rest of us, right?
- 1905 3y ago[dead]
- s5300 3y ago[dead]
- andy_ppp 3y agoIs this a reliable source? Are there many nefarious people out there wanting power and influence? If there was a time for this to happen COVID would have been an ideal cover, but instead the illuminati will be switching on the 5G control system any day now.
- tmpz22 3y agoI put tinfoil on our home modem so my family is safe.
- Amezarak 3y agoTaibbi is in the byline. He’s a well-known award-winning investigative reporter. He certainly has biases, puts his spin on things, and this is one of his hobby horses lately, but he is a reliable source.
- andy_ppp 3y agoOh, him with his Twitter Files nonsense that he was pretending was a story.
- Amezarak 3y agoThis particular article goes deeper into the same subject and among other things, details government employees working for government agencies actively participating a way people attacking the Twitter files reporting claimed did not happen. What would make government censorship a story in your opinion?
- smoldesu 3y ago> What would make government censorship a story in your opinion? A single damning report too ugly to cover up, corroborated by a major source (either journalistic or investigative). The Twitter files were not Snowden-level, and the drip-feed release schedule tired everyone out real fast. It was written with dramatic intent, and that exhausted his credibility in my eyes. I don't read news for the eye candy, I read it to get a fair and level-headed understanding of the situation at hand. Even the FBI managed a reasonable response: > The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries. As evidenced in the correspondence, the FBI provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their customers. The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public. It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency.
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- ivan_gammel 3y agoI do not know anything about this source, but it may be true. Information warfare for influencing public opinion through online media has been developed since early 2000s by both USA and Russia through private firms. I know at least one incident where US DoD censored publications about the war in Afghanistan by denying access to battlefield to opposition media and counter-messaging. Here‘s a breadcrumb if you are interested: https://www.stripes.com/news/military-terminates-rendon-contract-1.94400 https://www.stripes.com/news/military-terminates-rendon-cont...
- varispeed 3y agoMore likely the plan was created by corrupt politicians while Military who is the last resort when it comes to protecting citizens from this kind of thing, sit on their hands. Billions have been stolen during Covid by corrupt governments and their mates and nobody is in prison. Oh well.
- ftkftk 3y agoSounds like a clickbait headline. Reading the article confirms the suspicion. A lot of narrative being pushed in this.
- thedaly 3y agoWhat narrative is that?
- TheCaptain4815 3y agoConsidering within 2 years the sitting president of the united states was banned from the majority of online platforms, along with various other figures from his political party, I'd say it was highly successful. I don't necessarily believe the source as it sounds a bit "outrageous", but if true they were highly successful.
- kube-system 3y ago> “Misinformation, they realized, could be treated the same way: as a cybersecurity problem.” It is, when spread over the internet in a systematic and intentional way. It literally is social engineering. There is a serious problem with misinformation causing radicalization and SV is doing only the bare minimum to give congress lip service, and it is getting measurably worse. Malicious regimes around the world are fueling these efforts systematically and intentionally (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency) and know that this is a cheap way to cause domestic problems within the US at an arms length. From their perspective, this is a great weapon, and a trojan horse taking advantage of the US's cultural reluctance to censor. Many here usually support a "no censorship in any circumstance" position, but I think that's a dangerous position to take in this situation, because it risks a future in which speech is free but automatically distrusted. Something needs to be done to cut these efforts off at the source before it (further) undermines our own trust in free speech.
- Amezarak 3y agoI personally believe misinformation is a symptom rather than a cause of radicalization, but granting the premise, I don’t see how SV and USGOV can be trusted to fairly censor and run their own propaganda campaigns without transparency. We already have examples of them abusing this power.
- kube-system 3y agoThere's a complex web of how disinformation and misinformation interact. Misinformation spread by ignorant people to other ignorant people is bad, but I don't think it's really the problem here, and I don't think it should necessarily be censored. The real problem is the engineered disinformation which is introduced into the wild by malicious parties for the purpose of causing political unrest. The downstream people who latch on to these made up ideas then become unwitting amplifiers and/or people who decide to act in real life (e.g. David DePape). They're the victims of these social engineering attacks. Really, it's not much different than how malware spreads. It's just malware for social engineering.
- firebaze 3y agoI think I'll be creating a news service which filters for flagged HN posts with more than 20 votes and less than (votes / 2) comments. A good mix of really interesting mixed with click-baity news. Looking for a co-founder :)
- animal_spirits 3y agoThis post got flagged. What are the reasons behind it being flagged? We should be talking more about censorship.
- bsbdbkeks66554 3y ago[flagged]
- smoldesu 3y agoFrom the HN guidelines: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
- pcvarmint 3y agoGovernment censorship and government-corporate/NGO collusion is of interest. https://soundcloud.com/pushbackshow/matt-taibbi-on-the-twitter-files https://soundcloud.com/pushbackshow/matt-taibbi-on-the-twitt... Western Civilization is in the midst of Fascism (in the Mussolini sense of corporation and state), and yet most people are in a Mass Formation and welcome demonizing and killing their fellow man all because of minor disagreements, ideological or religious differences, or tribalism. I don't know how much longer Western Civilization will survive without world war or collapse. The inmates are running the asylum.
- smoldesu 3y agoIt's popular, but offtopic. Stuff like this will end up getting flagged.
- themark 3y agoI agree. If true, this appears to represent an enormous hack against vulnerabilities in humans. It should not be suppressed.
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- kukkeliskuu 3y agoUltimately it is about trust. Time and time again history reveals that it is impossible to maintain trust by controlling information about trust. The only way is to build trust is to be proven trustworthy. But it is a slow and burdensome process, perhaps that is why governments return to the futile effort.
- friend_and_foe 3y agoFlagged lol the irony.