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by themeek 11y ago
Why do you believe this should be their highest priority?
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by themeek 11y ago
Twitter has been a frustration for US propaganda efforts for a long time (e.g. https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/cen... ). Whoever usurps Dick Costolo, if they pursue 'removing and preve
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by themeek 11y ago
I do not know about this specific case (looking at the subreddits I truly doubt it is an example) but there are examples of systems using anti-harrassment as a means to censor particular groups, links, and ideas. With a title like "&#x
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by themeek 11y ago
Do you mean that the US and UK compare favoratively when measuring "fatal police shootings per generic fatal shooting per capita"?
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by themeek 11y ago
Another really nice contribution. Well phrased. In the McVeigh case the FBI pronounced (and media reverberated) that the OK City bombings were a Muslim terrorist attack until it was shown, in fact, to be definitively not the case. The langu
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by themeek 11y ago
Thank you for the insightful comment. I found your thesis about the racist nature of police abuse interesting, especially how you tie it to mass surveillance. I think you are probably right that this plays a large role in which communities
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by themeek 11y ago
Emergancy use in the US (I'm not sure if this has changed) has in practice meant very liberal use and sometimes statewide blanket coverage (e.g. Florida).
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by themeek 11y ago
No filtering by ISP, though there has been plenty of legislation with an attempt to set this up. The filtering happens at the content provider level - Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
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by themeek 11y ago
This is a comparative statement. The US has an order of magnitude more of this activity than other countries (of similar wealth and government type).
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by themeek 11y ago
Mass surveillance is about terrorism. It's just not only about terrorism, or mostly about terrorism. When terrorism is invoked what the public is left with is, 'oh it's used for that so that's what it's intended for
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by themeek 11y ago
With regard to the quote I found this: http://history.stackexchange.com/questions/10055/what-is-the... It looks like the speech has no good reliable source. That doesn't mean this isn't happening or does
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by themeek 11y ago
One of the reasons legal immunity is being offered is because corporations are suspicious that the data will get used to enforce regulations, bring lawsuits or otherwise be a tool of legal pressure. The Government in this case is willing to
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by themeek 11y ago
Right, but they also interrogated Eric Holder and also Loretta Lynch about the use of not just surveillance, but hellfire, drones over American skies. The FAA's legislation further opens up the skies for surveillance drones - sets the
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by themeek 11y ago
During the stone age militaries and governments wielded stone. During the bronze age militaries and governments wielded bronze. During the iron age militaries and governments wielded iron. We shouldn't be surprised that, during the inf
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by themeek 11y ago
I'm sorry that you are so dismissive, especially post Snowden, of the idea that the US has strategic partnerships with US companies. This is not new, shocking or crazy information. It is not an unreasonable or alien claim. If you do st
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by themeek 11y ago
What sort of evidence exactly are you looking for? Understanding how the US operates, how US companies cooperate, and the context, timing, history and actor roles appear not to be enough. I suppose you're looking for a smoking gun - a
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by themeek 11y ago
Allow me to add some information here, as the commentor hasn't asked for anything specific. The United States disbanded USIA (the agency in charge of US propaganda) after the end of the Cold War in 1999. USIA was split into a couple co
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by themeek 11y ago
> But that "in all likelihood" is just you making things up and is not, of course, actual evidence. Everything else you've provided in this thread is handwaving. Not in the least. Is there anything you'd like corrobor
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by themeek 11y ago
VOA is under the BBG. :)
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by themeek 11y ago
Please also see the reams of discussion in this thread from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9679674
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by themeek 11y ago
"Neo-colonialism" may be the term you are looking for, along with "soft power". Russia and China in particular are upset with this form of cultural domination and export by the West. Both have stated quite frankly in rea
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by themeek 11y ago
No tinfoil here. That's a silly suggestion. A more productive and charitable way to enter this conversation would be to engage it with fact-based and evidence-laden argumentation, and citation where necessary. On that end if you have a
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by themeek 11y ago
The danger of making such jokes, even when they are funny like yours, is that it clouds legitimate and reasonable discussion about the ways in which US companies support US national security efforts. There is no need to ridicule this poster
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by themeek 11y ago
So the 'votes' here have nothing to do with the spirit of the Magna Carta so I'm not certain why the BBC linked them. The Magna Carta was a concession made by the king of England (he had to make them, or he would have been ki
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by themeek 11y ago
I do not know much about Cloudflare. It was my impression that they were a legitimate business on their own right. They very well may have a partnership to protect CIA operation digital assets, or partner with other departments for other pu
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by themeek 11y ago
Perhaps you could speak some more about what's happening in India? Here's what I understand: the United States and the West are partnering very heavily with India to get it to rise in tandem with China. India doesn't have a g
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by themeek 11y ago
Wow, this is incredible. Great work and an out-of-the-box and obvious-in-hindsight solution. The performance numbers are inspiring. Will be interesting to see crypt-analysis that attempts to break a solution like this.
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by themeek 11y ago
Google, like most other multinational companies inside the US, have partnerships with various parts of the US government. Google is aligned with the United States State Department and DoD when it comes to investing and spreading American cu
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by themeek 11y ago
Google Ideas is a means by which US outreach, propaganda, narrative, voice and news sites and apps can be protected when it broadcasts to populations around the globe. US investment in organizations and outlets that align with its strategic
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by themeek 11y ago
Google will, in all likelihood, very selectively give protection to news outlets. For example those from the Board of Broadcasting Governors, or from the BIIP, or from USAID, or from US sponsored NGOs are definitely going to get support.

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