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by xnull2guest 10y ago
I am American. I am referring to the well known and well regarded Chinese policy of non-interference and non-intervention, and the Chinese leadership of UN Peacekeeping missions, as well as their lack of having been in a war with any extern
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
I would call it state propaganda, not fake news.
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
It actually doesn't mention that police surveillance of your social media posts calculates a threat score for you, which is used to make law enforcement decisions. In fact, the article I think does a poor job overall doing compare-and-
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
The article overplayed the contrast and underplayed the comparison. China has civil rights organizations parallel to the ACLU, and in America civil rights activists and journalists are routinely finding themselves charged with crimes, in pr
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
The United States already includes social media into police threat scoring algorithms, which are used to track and prioritize police surveillance and citizen 'nudging'. Algorithms across the US attempt to constrain the conversatio
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
I'm worried about the freedom of dissenting opinion in civil society from surveillance, not the privacy of my messages. Privacy is something I would easily give up for such freedom. Signal seems to me to one tool in a large profile to
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
sctb, for the record I feel that this removed a lot of the on-topic content I worked hard to write. I feel as though my comments, as removed, were not uniquely off-topic, and am surprised that the parent topic is still included in the publi
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
America has been at war with East Asia only since around the 1940s. But yeah given Orwell was English, they've been at war there for hundreds of years.
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
I see. I understand now that you did not intend your post in any way to be discussing people writ large who have lost trust in public information dissemination, and were only talking about a very specific generalization of very specific peo
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
So you're a media dsitribution contractor in Washington, DC and you don't see how covert editing of social media posts is upsetting, overreach, abuse, or illegitimate? And you're making fun of expectations of the integrity of
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
It would be nice to have a clearer understanding of how the algorithm works, and how it purports to stop vote manipulation from state actors, like the capabilities of the GCHQ and NSA from the Snowden documents or the astroturfing contracto
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
No you completely missed the point, which is that the US has and does overthrow democracies for National Security and global power ambitions. Authoritarianism is an excuse for US activity and reforms in Russia that would make it more effici
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
It's funny when Western social media synonymizes "modernization", "westernization" and "brighter future". Especially since it was very recently that huge structural transformations in Russia (Gorby's
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
I both realized: 1) Trump had a significant chance of winning because of a disgruntled American public voting against establishment candidates (the same reason Obama himself was elected in 2008). 2) There was "fake news" before th
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
I remember reading a great deal on Judith Miller, the Iraqi National Conference, and the selling of the fake news out of (originally) the New York Times that propagandized the American public into invading Iraq. There's a number of way
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
The article is so heavily handed in its one-sided condemnation of adversary nations, and the author refuses to look at the disinformation activities of his fatherland (besides saying it isn't doing enough and needs to "up its game
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
> There are lies and truth, propaganda and real information. If we fail to distinguish between them, we will have critical problems and many people will suffer. This is precisely my point with US propaganda and "the mainstream media
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
Yeah I've seen that. With both the United States and the Russian government (and of course others) surging so much in information and psychological warfare, is it any wonder everyone is so confused?
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
The problem IS disentangling them. We can point to certain cases like Iraq where we would have appreciated not being fed outright lies that can't even be justified by end-justifies-the-means because the ends were horrible, with incredi
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
Yup! Washington absolutely hates Snowden, and especially the fact that he appeals to the majority of people - that in large part some even consider him a hero. Pompeo is not unusual (perhaps unfortunately) in that regard.
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
This comment is so confusing. It points out that the media industry isn't a monolithic group that is composed of competing organizations, and therefore not subject to scrutiny. Then it argues that "fake news", which isn'
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
The headline makes it seem like there was radical change after Snowden. That's fake news. The major movements after Snowden were to quiet public dissent about the disclosures, make legal the former collections policies, and move the au
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
I would say that his post is highly corroborated with what I've read from Stratfor and other leaked documents (not through Wikileaks). Indeed, the CIA have terms for different kinds of propaganda. White propaganda is true things that a
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
FUD. Trying to involve conspiracy theories about intelligence agencies. Trying to motivate a list (of two?) "hallmarks" that are neither a list nor hallmarks. Regarding Spring, the Arab Spring was externally organized. It fed on r
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
No, it's motivated that way to get support, but it's about source and credibility. Namely, the traditional media market is an advertising platform: it makes its money by selling stories and perspectives in the form of media narrat
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
Right, "persona management" is a technique for keeping track of simulated people with simulated interests, simulated aging (so the accounts can exist for years and be reputable), simulated interests and consistent simulated schedu
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
Yup, in the US and elsewhere. It's called "astroturfing". The US military has been doing it for a decade or more (Operation Earnest Voice, etc). The new technology is to augment bot behavior with "persona management&quot
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
Most likely an intelligence agency will replace it. There will probably be a battle for the credibility vacuum created. With high likelihood USG will be a contenter.
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
Brigaded threads are the norm for the internet now. Governments around the world including the US and UK hire military contractors to brigade, trolls brigade, and motivated communities brigade. It's sad, I agree.
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
The email in question: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6293 For those who don't know the term "Spring" means a fake, externally organized revolution that is seen as legitimate because i

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