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[Meta] This is /r/Undelete, Not /r/Conspiracy (self.undelete)

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[–]gavy101 6 ポイント7 ポイント 前

Operation Earnest Voice is now a well known astroturfing campaign by the US government, using sockpuppet accounts to spread pro-American propaganda, it does not take a large leap of imagination to assume that the budget for domestic operations of the same type will be enormous.

[–]autowikibot 4 ポイント5 ポイント 前

Operation Earnest Voice:

Operation Earnest Voice is a planned astroturfing campaign by the US government. The aim of the initiative is to use sockpuppets to spread pro-American propaganda on social networking sites based outside of the US. According to the United States Military Central Command (CENTCOM), the US-based Facebook and Twitter networks are not targeted by the program, although US laws do not prohibit US state agencies from spreading propaganda among US citizens as according to the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012. However, Isaac R. Porche, a researcher at the RAND corporation, claims it would not be easy to exclude US audiences when dealing with internet communications.

Interesting: Ntrepid | Sockpuppet (Internet) | Astroturfing | Internet Water Army

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[–]urban_hermit[S] -2 ポイント-1 ポイント 前

You're presenting conjecture as fact without proof.

[–]RobertK3 1 ポイント2 ポイント 前

The State Department spent $630,000 to advertise on facebook.

Hey, I conjecture if you hit a tree at 100 mph you'll be in bad shape. But neither you nor I have actually tried it. Wanna volunteer?

[–]lolthr0w 1 ポイント2 ポイント 前

$630,000 is pocket change at that level.

Hey, I conjecture if you hit a tree at 100 mph you'll be in bad shape.

Physics. Science. Theories. Experimentation. Evidence. You idiot.

[–]RobertK3 -2 ポイント-1 ポイント 前

Oh god, you again. Can't you troll somewhere else?

I guarantee you you could buy a Reddit mod or two for $630,000, a site a few more people rely on for news than facebook.

[–]lolthr0w -1 ポイント0 ポイント 前

"Oh god, you again. Can't you troll somewhere else?"

Shadowbanned from reddit for vote brigading

Too dumb to clear cookies or copypaste links before downvoting to not get banned.

Making a new account and still posting on reddit

Hates reddit

"Can't you troll somewhere else?"

mfw

Thinks shitty /r/technology mods are owned by the feds, but apparantly feds are too lazy to send National Security Letter to /u/maxwellhill and /u/qghy2 to tell them to resign, fuck off, and take full blame for the filters, and also too lazy to send a NSL to cupcake to have /r/technology reinstated as default

not realizing shitty conspiracy theory doesn't even make any logical sense even when assuming it's right

mfw

[–]RobertK3 -2 ポイント-1 ポイント 前

Oh yay, my new account has a stalker.

Go blow your brains out you waste of flesh. The world will be a better place

[–]lolthr0w -1 ポイント0 ポイント 前

"Oh yay, my new account has a stalker."

Dumb fuck thinks I care enough about him to stalk him

mfw

[–]RobertK3 -1 ポイント0 ポイント 前

Did you know that there's at least five household chemicals in your local supermarket you can use to end your life? Bleach, Draino, and Ammonia can all work. In fact you can just keep the door closed and mix bleach and ammonia together. It will solve your issues. And really, when do you ever leave that room anyway?

[–]lolthr0w -1 ポイント0 ポイント 前

(n)edgy(n*2)me

I drink your tears ;)

Your face right now

[–]gavy101 1 ポイント2 ポイント 前

I did not say it was fact, which is why i said..

it does not take a large leap of imagination...

But online programs run by the government, are now well known and i am not sure why you are trying to suggest differently?

state-sponsored internet sockpuppetry; programs created by governments with the intention of swaying online opinion, undermining dissident communities, or changing the perception of what is the dominant view

United Kingdom - "Online Covert Action" by the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group, first revealed in February 2014.

and

United States - Operation Earnest Voice, first reported in March 2011.

[–]urban_hermit[S] -4 ポイント-3 ポイント 前

Ok then, in my opinion, you're causing a distraction by presenting your conspiracy theory in a forum that has no need for it. Find proof that any of this is going on, and that will be a different story.

[–]gavy101 0 ポイント1 ポイント 前

That is perfectly fine, in my opinion your whole post, is at best, anecdotal, you don't have a valid argument at all.

So i could turn that around and say this whole thread is not needed

[–]urban_hermit[S] -4 ポイント-3 ポイント 前

you don't have a valid argument at all.

That's easy to say without backing it up. Just like these theories you're presenting... connection!?!?

[–]gavy101 -1 ポイント0 ポイント 前

I have provided links which pertain to recently leaked evidence, on the very thing that you are trying to suggest does not exist. This is the very document that you seem to think is some mad conspiracy theory, in light of the fact that the US and UK governments spy on their own citizens.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

Do remember that i said it does not take a large leap of imagination to assume that the budget for domestic operations of the same type will be enormous

It appears that there is more evidence supporting what i am saying than your default, non fact based Occam's Razor, which is nothing more than your opinion, based on nothing in particular.

[–]lolthr0w 0 ポイント1 ポイント 前

You've posting convincing evidence that the government might have a few reddit accounts for astroturfing and maybe engage in vote manipulation.

You've posted 0 evidence that they're managed to compromise the moderators of default subreddits, and if you're read about the /r/technology case it would become exceedingly clear that this is not what is going on.

If the moderator that instituted the filter, /u/davidreiss666, was under the pay of the government, this would never have happened, because one National Security Letter later and /u/maxwellhill and /u/qghy2 would be resigning from head mod position and taking full blame for the filters. Another one and /r/technology would be back to being a default subreddit.

Your shitty theory doesn't just lack evidence to back it up, it also doesn't even make any sense.

You're watching a few children splashing each other in a kiddie pool and imagining James Bond setting up a hit on a influential businessman.