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I'm fairly sure someone smarter and with more time than me could trace an interesting parallel between East and West policies when it comes to the internet, com

I'm fairly sure someone smarter and with more time than me could trace an interesting parallel between East and West policies when it comes to the internet, comparing the leaks about GCHQ[1] and this post. Perhaps an "infinite monkeys" vs "carefully targeted" approach? Also, I may or may not be an employee who was told to come and disrupt the discussion here. So there's that too. [1] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/ https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...

xnull2guest 12y ago
Here's a start for the US. Incomplete list of domestic stuff: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8856218 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8856218 like "public opinion campaigns": http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/us/20generals.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/us/20generals.html?pagewan... Incomplete list of international stuff: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8709976 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8709976 like using social media to kindle revolutions: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/usaid-effort-to-undermine-cuban-government-with-fake-twitter-another-anti-castro-failure/2014/04/03/c0142cc0-bb75-11e3-9a05-c739f29ccb08_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/usaid-effort-t... Some things almost sound like science fiction, like the DoD program to predict successful overseas propaganda by observing brain scans of test subjects: http://minerva.dtic.mil/doc/samplewp-Lieberman.pdf http://minerva.dtic.mil/doc/samplewp-Lieberman.pdf