Posted on 07/02/2015 9:50:37 PM PDT by Nachum
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,
Have you ever come across someone on the Internet that you suspected was a paid government troll? Well, there is a very good chance that you were not imagining things. Thanks to Edward Snowden, we now have solid proof that paid government trolls are using “psychology-based influence techniques” on social media websites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Documents leaked by Snowden also reveal that government agents have been conducting denial-of-service attacks, flooding social media websites with thinly veiled propaganda and have been purposely attempting to warp public discourse online. If we do not stand up and object to this kind of Orwellian behavior, it is only going to get worse and worse.
In the UK, the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG) is a specialized unit within the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). If it wasn’t for Edward Snowden, we probably still would never have heard of them. This particular specialized unit is engaged in some very “questionable” online activities. The following is an excerpt from a recent piece by Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Fishman…
Though its existence was secret until last year, JTRIG quickly developed a distinctive profile in the public understanding, after documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the unit had engaged in “dirty tricks” like deploying sexual “honey traps” designed to discredit targets, launching denial-of-service attacks to shut down Internet chat rooms, pushing veiled propaganda onto social networks and generally warping discourse online.
We are told that JTRIG only uses these techniques to go after the “bad guys”.
But precisely who are the “bad guys”?
It turns out that their definition of who the “bad guys” are is quite broad. Here is more from Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Fishman…
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
You’re in the wrong neighborhood mutha...
So, questions:
How do they recruit their trolls?
How can we get hired and infiltrate the troll community?
How much damage can we do before they discover us?
Off topic, but out of curiosity, how many FReepers were there on day one?
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McCain Campaign: Comment Trolls Wanted
Thanks; nice job of growing the herd!
No her name was Huma Weiner.
They didn't have to hack anything except Cankle Cabbage!
Never have had a facebook, a twitter, or any of that other weird sh#t.
Don’t think it is anybody’s business what I am doing every minute of every day of my life.
I even take every thing I read here on Free Republic with a 50 pound sack of salt, although I do think some of the folks here are minutely more honest than the average.
> The paid trolls defending the government’s K-12 socialist-entitlement and godless schools have been here long before 2008.
Maybe so but they sure came out from u der the rocks in 2008c
> The paid trolls defending the government’s K-12 socialist-entitlement and godless schools have been here long before 2008.
Maybe so but they sure came out from under the rocks in 2008
Huma didn’t have to do it, Hillary did it herself.
Hat-tip to Fractal Trader
Ping to my list to article on Snowden release on Gov’t trolling. Trolls have been active in diverting, NBC, “Birther” and Arpaio threads into nonsense dead-ends for years...
” So the straw man you are propping up is bikers are pedophiles? Really? ”
I had not put bikers in that category but since you have I wont say that some are not.
Ever since the 24th amendment gave the vote to non-taxpayers, and ever since the 26th amendment gave the vote to dumb 18 year olds, Yes. It matters.
Their votes count for just as much as sensible contributing people, and they are easily stampeded into stupidity.
“I don’t follow the Waco threads but it is doubtful that a government troll will defend the government. They are going to be a lot more subtle than that.”
Boomer and others are missing a key point. In Waco, even the bikers involved are ‘defending’ the government.
Peter Graves, Bandidos officer and TCOC president at the Waco shooting, says they respect the police for doing their job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_sCRg69TQE
(Big John Snyder, Vice president of the Boozefighters at the Waco shooting) “The police were professional, considering the situation they were in. They were professional and doing their job,” he said.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-waco-biker-20150519-story.html
We have also heard from a biker family member that the police probably saved lives at Waco.
Hmmm
They've been here on FR in force for a very long time.
Darksiders, all, but it's hard to argue with their success.
Sun Tzu would be proud and our FFs would likely be ashamed, but not surprised.
When Hillary ‘discovered’ the internet FR and AOL chat rooms filled up with them...
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