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Every Western government is receiving the same briefings from its intelligence and counterintelligence agencies: these powers are needed in case the third world
by cjs_ac 9mo ago
Every Western government is receiving the same briefings from its intelligence and counterintelligence agencies: these powers are needed in case the third world war starts.
- danielbln 9mo agoThey've been pushing for this stuff for ever, at least 20 years ago.
- cjs_ac 9mo agoDifferent countries have made on-and-off efforts over the decades, but I'm explaining why they're all doing it right now.
- thatguy0900 9mo agoIntelligence agencies have seen the writing on the wall with allowing hostile countries unfettered access to their own citizens minds on social media for a while, I would imagine
- LtWorf 9mo agoYou actually mean you want to abolish freedom of speech. Sure. But then we lose the moral high ground of going to wars because we have democracy.
- thatguy0900 9mo agoI don't want to do anything. I think it's a problem with no moral solution. When Elon turned on location data in Twitter and everyone saw all the homegrown American Maga influencer accounts were foreign it should have opened eyes but Noone really cared. You have a choice between closing the internet or letting them brain rot your populace in the open. It's not a theoretical power, nato and the US European led world order is on the cliff of dissolving and none of our adverseries had to fire a single shot at us.
- LtWorf 9mo agoYou can't see me but i rolled my eyes.
- thatguy0900 9mo agoOK, what's your solution? Continue to let every foreign power spew propaganda unhindered? Do you find the dissolution of nato by an extremist foreign sponsored American party less serious than I do? The mere concept of America openly threatening invasion on nato would have been completely unthinkable a year ago.
- an0malous 9mo agoI think western governments want these tools just to maintain order, they used to rely a lot on their ability to manufacture consent among their populous but the Internet allows people to discover inconvenient truths that threaten the old order. Everyone used to be pretty happy with the appearance of freedom and democracy in the western world because they didn't know any better and mainstream media was tightly controlled so they couldn't find out either, now they're learning they're neither free nor have any say in their governance from alternative media so here come the crackdowns on free speech and any form of protest or dissent.