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I've come to the conclusion that multiple world governments --working together and against each other-- are attempting and in some cases are able to manipulate
by zxcvcxz 11y ago
I've come to the conclusion that multiple world governments --working together and against each other-- are attempting and in some cases are able to manipulate the narrative of conversations on the internet to further certain political agendas.
I don't believe most of the crap I hear about teenagers leaving in droves to join ISIS all over the world, this is the red scare all over again. I'm also pretty sure twitter is one of the main social platforms used to manipulate the political/social narrative of the internet. More than half the accounts are probably fake, who knows how many fake "ISIS" accounts there are or even what countries government is making them. I also suspect twitter is being used as some kind of data hub for surveillance because of how fast it caught on in Arab countries and a lot of countries that aren't quite "western", then the western media started to push it in every news broadcast for a while as if anyone in America actually used it.
Surprise surprise! all the terrorists always have twitter accounts. I wouldn't be surprised if the next "home-grown" terrorist has a twitter account.
- classicsnoot 11y ago@zxcvcxz, you have crossed the line into stupid. Your idea is reminiscent of AntiVax people or homeopaths. Here is some light reading for you to contemplate. http://bulletinoftheoppressionofwomen.com/category/acid-attacks-on-women-and-girls/ http://bulletinoftheoppressionofwomen.com/category/acid-atta...
- zxcvcxz 11y agoShouldn't we invade every country that oppresses women by your logic? The only reason ISIS exists is because we created it, and your solution is to go back and do what we just did again and create even more ISIS?
- classicsnoot 11y agoFirst off, at no point did i say we should repeat the mistakes of Gulf II. That was an intellectual leap made by you. Second, i was responding to how blase you seem to be about what ISIS is doing and what they are. I do not know what should be done. My inclination is for volunteers from any country be sent in to keep the peace and pursue these fucking monsters. Not nation states, not governments. Volunteers. And just to be clear. Smurf yes. The US should have a standing policy that if you melt people's faces or destroy priceless historical treasures because your stupid little book told you to, that we wreck shop. But that is childish and far fetched.
- douche 11y agoISIS exists because Islam has a jihadic tradition, and young, disenfranchised men are prone to violent actions. It's not like this is a problem specific to Islam - the Crusades were a similar exercise for christianity (where the Crusade wasn't an outright pirate raid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Crusade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Crusade), and China has historically had lots of rebellions when the population of angry young men gets activated.
- badsock 11y agoWhat zxcvcxz describes has been verified to be absolutely the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Threat_Research_Intelligence_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Threat_Research_Intellig... "Campaigns operated by JTRIG have broadly fallen into two categories; cyber attacks and propaganda efforts. The propaganda efforts (named "Online Covert Action"[4]) utilize "mass messaging" and the “pushing [of] stories” via the medium of Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and YouTube.[2] Online “false flag” operations are also used by JTRIG against targets." See also: Operation Earnest Voice by the USA.
- classicsnoot 11y agoSo Saudi Arabia outlawing Twitter was in response to a US propaganda operation?
- dang 11y ago> you have crossed the line into stupid. Your idea is reminiscent of AntiVax people or homeopaths Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. Please don't do this again.