Wow. You just are realizing this? They do a lot more commenting and socializing then what that article states. You are really late.
The posters aren't always real smart. The trolls, but they have supervisors. They are pretty smart. It's a lot of copy/paste, half history. Bias history. Insults. I've had good convo with some of them. Mostly about military tech. Hardware. Ukrainians like the tech talk too. Engines, propulsion, rockets. All good stuff. It can be hard to find a good Russian troll who speaks good enough English. If they are fluent, most likely is a Canadian Russian are American Russian. Also they have people that pretend to be Russian trolls. Counter trolling. The invasion of Crimea start a whole big troll off. Disinformation, and general crap talking. That's all I know. I'm not what shut down CNN comments boards last year, but I give credit to the Russian. The guys in Donbas liked to do a lot of media too. Threads with 20k comments in a half a day. Some articles ran 2-3 times do to high traffic. New threads same articles. Good times. It's not really like that anymore. lol the best thing was posting in Mandarin. That's shuts up Americans and Russians.
The news to me is seeing this published in a major news source, not the trolling itself But youre right - wars have probably been partially instigated by this: Egypts recent revolution Syrias current revolution Crimea Lybia Sudan Some even say that snowden himself is acting under the direction of the us Its impossible to lnow what to think
The Arab spring was a lot of twitter. Ukraine/Russia really went all out. It seemed a lot broader. Mainly because the US/Europe was the focus. We talk a lot more free than most people. So all the media was hit. News, Facebook, Twitter. All the blogs. Facebook accounts were hacked and used. Given American voices to Russian agenda. It was impossible for the public to come to a censuses through mainstream media outlets. All the information was suspect. It started with disinformation, and ended in spam. It was even hard to tell who was doing what. It's was perfect. Twitter is a big deal. Take Turkey for example. They have had major issues with the platform being used for revolutionary agendas. Which caused legal issues, and more protest. Turkey was ready to revolt for Facebook and Twitter.
I'm always way ahead of you guys. Get over it. It was nice talking to you cheese. Have good one dude.
All very good points, hydra. Social media is a double edge sword and whoever can weild it best now holds the keys to war. I personally feel that the us and jewish/zionist social media machine fabricated the arab spring to destabilize the region for their own economic benefit. We are seeing the beginning of that also taking place elsewhere - venezuela, china, and russia In fact, it goes much deeper than physical war too. Im sure youre well aware that stocks are no longer traded by humans, but by algorithms instead. And where do you think those algorithms get their advice? Every social media post gets assigned a number based on the sentiment of the post as well as the global reach. The algorithms in turn use that data to predict how well a stock will perform and then make trades accordingly Propaganda is arguably the hardest to detect, yet has the most devastating consequences of any other type of warfare, mostly because its the only weapon that can start wars and keep people supprtive of unpopular conflicts
Jade Helm ? Looks like the summer isn't going to be so riveting after all. Alright. Good luck KaWers of the world!!
During the Arab spring revolt I was online using the turkey hashtag and at one point the government shut them down.
I don't know what to say about "Jade Helm"... In my opinion is an overreaction over it. When I was in the military (in Romania) we had this kind of training for covert operations in civilian areas 3-4 times every year. And nobody was crying about martial law and such. Covert operations in urban areas is an important part of warfare. Training must be done, I think... So where can US Army train? Covert operations in Canada? Or in Mexico perhaps? Or you want them to grow some balls and train in Russia?
Urban training is ok. But the training area covers nearly half of the entire united states This operation is remarkable in that regard
Maybe they want to train covert operations on a large territory, to train the communications and coordinations between covert troops from different urban areas? Idk... I've read several articles about Jade Helm...and all of them was scared about "martial law". Which makes a bit confused. All americans I've met (and I did met a lot of them) are proud about their freedom, heck...they are bragging with their freedom. Yet nothing scare them more than their own government.
I think the biggest problem most law abiding citizens have with our government is the hipocrisy. The government expects us to trust them with all our most private secrets. In return, the government is full of secrets that most of us will never know. How can we be expected to trust a government that doesnt trust its citizens?
Well...is not like US government can send those secrets in a sealed envelope to every US citizen. And some of those secrets should remain secrets for potential enemies.
And about private secrets...idk. Someone mentioned Snowden before. His reasoning was only the "good" of american citizens? Maybe... But maybe not. For example I call in USA everyday. I really don't care if my phone calls are recorded on some NSA server. I'm nobody. I'll never be interesting for an NSA employee to have reasons to listen those recordings. But instead if I'd be an USA politician, or an USA business man for sure I'll be very interested about this. Information is power. So if someone have informations over me and my plans and handle to my competition, they are going to have advantages over me. So I'm wondering who actually had benefits over Snowden's actions.
You should be concerned about some fat american kid in his twenties sItting in a hidden government building, snooping in on your private conversations. The very fact that your communications are under continuous surveilance is a de-facto infringement on free speech because people can no longer express themselves freely without worrying about whether their words could be used out of context to accuse them of terrorist activity We already see people going to jail simply for suggesting that Islamic State may have legitimacy on social media These are simply words without action. Its not like they gave money or weapons to them
Sheeople would be a slang in a sense, means people who act like sheep and just play follow the leader in life, soulless drones pretty much, aka sheeople