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From: hisler@nym.hush.com
On 11/1/2022 7:37 PM, 26C.Z968 wrote:
> On 11/1/22 3:39 PM, Nic wrote:
>> On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 12:06:59 -0600
>> Hisler wrote:
>>
>>> This begs the question of how much the U.S. Government, including DHS,
>>> places paid "influencers" or trolls to try to impact discussion in
>>> usenet chat rooms. Being the most free and least regulated discussion
>>> platform, it is hard to believe government and its "Big Tech" allies
>>> would ignore usenet.
>>>
>>> https://occidentaldissent.com/2022/11/01/the-intercept-leake
-documents-outline-dhss-plan-to-censor-disinformation/
>>>
>>> The Intercept:
>>>
>>> “The Department of Homeland Security is quietly broadening its efforts
>>> to curb speech it considers dangerous, an investigation by The Intercept
>>> has found. Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents — obtained
>>> via leaks and an ongoing lawsuit, as well as public documents —
>>> illustrate an expansive effort by the agency to influence tech
>>> platforms.
>>>
>>> The work, much of which remains unknown to the American public, came
>>> into clearer view earlier this year when DHS announced a new
>>> “Disinformation Governance Board”: a panel designed to police
>>> misinformation (false information spread unintentionally),
>>> disinformation (false information spread intentionally), and
>>> malinformation (factual information shared, typically out of context,
>>> with harmful intent) that allegedly threatens U.S. interests. While the
>>> board was widely ridiculed, immediately scaled back, and then shut down
>>> within a few months, other initiatives are underway as DHS pivots to
>>> monitoring social media now that its original mandate — the war on
>>> terror — has been wound down.
>>>
>>> Behind closed doors, and through pressure on private platforms, the U.S.
>>> government has used its power to try to shape online discourse.
>>> According to meeting minutes and other records appended to a lawsuit
>>> filed by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a Republican who is
>>> also running for Senate, discussions have ranged from the scale and
>>> scope of government intervention in online discourse to the mechanics of
>>> streamlining takedown requests for false or intentionally misleading
>>> information.
>>>
>>> “Platforms have got to get comfortable with gov’t. It’s really
>>> interesting how hesitant they remain,” Microsoft executive Matt
>>> Masterson, a former DHS official, texted Jen Easterly, a DHS director,
>>> in February. …”
>>>
>>> BTW, Eric Schmitt is running for U.S. Senate in Missouri.
>>>
>>> We know all this largely because it has been exposed by his lawsuit.
>>> --
>>> "Build Back Better means Destroy More Quickly."
>>>
>>
>> It is becoming more clear by the day that Americans are being spoon
>> fed news nonsense, which can easily be seen by the frequent postings
>> of childish crap. This internet thing is being closely controlled. As
>> for Mr. Schmitt, I wish him best of luck. Can you say what is
>> Mr.Schmitt's views on victimless crimes?
>
>
> Re-read Plato's "Allegory of the Cave". The underlying message
> is that what's considered "reality" depends heavily on what
> "facts" and perspectives you get fed on a daily basis. People
> act and react according to their "reality". Their decisions can
> be quite logical, quite intelligent, even though it is always
> relative to the width and breadth of their perceived "reality".
>
> BTW, this applies to ALL of us - though many these days seem
> to further narrow their factual horizon to the point where
> they can't tell shit from Shinola, so to speak. Now on many
> of those platforms you're not even allowed to ASK, to QUESTION,
> or you're a FASCISTRACISTCOLONIZINGEVILMANIAC and EXCOMMUNICATED.
>
> The result has been the evolution of an almost perfect
> hermetically-sealed dink-leftist universe. And yea, the
> govt can and does take advantage of that, but govts
> always do.
>
> Religious "reality" was heavily exploited by Kings and Caliphs
> for thousands of years - still is to some extent, esp in the
> middle east. So, do not be SURPRISED by political/commercial/govt
> efforts to create "reality control".
>
> In any case, Plato (he ascribed it to Socrates, but he always
> did like name-dropping Socrates) had it nailed SO long ago.
> It must have been an issue even then. The Buddha had a
> similar message in roughly the same time frame though I
> think it went even a bit further.
>
> Now if you REALLY want to worry, consider that our very
> "human-ness" - our physical construction, our intellectual
> limits, mean we never get more than a key-hole view of
> "reality". It's all filtered through "human-colored glasses" :-)
>
Kurt Vonnegut touched on that very theme in his book Slaughterhouse-Five.
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