Could Some Internet ‘Trolls’ Actually Be Government Operatives?

[Mothergoose]

Funny....

U.S. Gov‘t Software Creates ’Fake People’ to Spread Message via Social Networking

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Sean Kerrigan
The US government is offering private intelligence companies contracts to create software to manage "fake people" on social media sites and create the illusion of consensus on controversial issues.
The contract calls for the development of "Persona Management Software" which would help the user create and manage a variety of distinct fake profiles online. The job listing was discussed in recently leaked emails from the private security firm HBGary after an attack by internet activist last week.


http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/20...ial-networking

[chicom]

Who cares if the other side of the argument is a pro?

I like to believe my amateur status is no handicap in such an arena.

As pros have a mandate to push talking points, a script, a mantra, it will be far easier to irritate, confound, and frustrate them with free thought, free flow discourse. As they must stay within the margins of their sanctioned points of view, I can run willy-nilly around them, flank their entrenched philosophical position, and ultimately give them the high, hard one from the rear.

We all know the greatest tools of government manipulation are leverage and intimidation. If they can apply neither effectively to you, they slink away, looking for easier prey.

Face it, they work for the gov't. The gov't is the refuge for those of little acumen and imagination.

[Lenno]

Who cares if the other side of the argument is a pro?

I like to believe my amateur status is no handicap in such an arena.

As pros have a mandate to push talking points, a script, a mantra, it will be far easier to irritate, confound, and frustrate them with free thought, free flow discourse. As they must stay within the margins of their sanctioned points of view, I can run willy-nilly around them, flank their entrenched philosophical position, and ultimately give them the high, hard one from the rear.

We all know the greatest tools of government manipulation are leverage and intimidation. If they can apply neither effectively to you, they slink away, looking for easier prey.

Face it, they work for the gov't. The gov't is the refuge for those of little acumen and imagination.

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NSA Documents Confirm The Government Has A Program To Plant Government Operative In Blogging and Media Forums… Federal Trolls

Posted on February 27, 2014 by sundance
Many have suspected this for quite some time. We have known this for quite some time. Edward Snowden releases new NSA documents which point out – There are paid intelligence and data operatives who professionally troll website content and comment pages based on federal strategies and objectives.
(WASHINGTON DC) The Internet has provided a forum for average people throughout the world to disseminate, share and debate information unattenuated by gatekeepers in the mainstream media and their politically connected friends.
New media outlets like Personal Liberty Digest™ have, for years, been warning readers that the well-connected and ruling elite, displeased by this newfound proletariat freedom, have been prolific in attempts to undermine and marginalize information provided by any media outlet unwilling to obey the same unspoken rules that govern the content choices of major media outlets.
Now, thanks to the efforts of National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden and journalist Glenn Greenwald, readers no longer have to take the word of “paranoid” bloggers who relate tales of paid government trolls lurking in comment sections and other concentrated top-down efforts to muddy the information provided by alternative media.

On his The Intercept blog this week, Greenwald provides documents from Snowden’s NSA cache which provide a look at some of the tactics employed by the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a spy agency that has been shown to have a close working relationship with the American spy agency.
The documents deal largely with the goals of GCHQ’s previously secret Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG), an apparatus whose mission Greenwald describes thusly: “Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable.” (read more

[chicom]

Who's paying taxes?

[Lenno]

Who's paying taxes?

hippy

[chicom]

After the monstrosity of federal spending over the last decade, including demonstrable idiotic funding for nonsensical programs, this is the bee in your bonnet?

Why are you surprised?

[tsimitpo]

In our new moral-less society, I assume all internet presence is under government guidance until clearly demonstrated otherwise.

And Glenn Beck should talk! He's the epitome of an agent of the Hegelian Dielectic!

[unique]

In war, the first casualty is truth.~ Aeschylus (?)


Someone said the Tree is a high priority target. Unless you are doing something amazing in the real world I doubt posters here garner much attention.

[MidnightTide]

I wish I could get paid to post on forums.

[Matt5-7]

Absolutely hilarious, Glenn Beck calling others "troll operatives". From the man who distracted/REDIRECTED the Tea Party away from shouting down Obamacare at every turn.

JUST LAY DOWN AND ACCEPT YOUR FATE, GLENN!!!! YOU HAVE EARNED IT!