sponsorship of the "propaganda" state
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the hacks that confirmed sock puppets were used on the net to sway opinion......some of the programs made it possible for one person to control and present up to 100 personas
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hat tip to oct...
Octafish (43,923 posts)
8. Why you should care about journalist Barrett Brown's sentencing today
By Barry Eisler, Opinion, Dec 16, 2014
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In 2009, Barrett founded Project PM, “dedicated to investigating private government contractors working in the secretive fields of cybersecurity, intelligence, and surveillance.” He was particularly instrumental in using documents obtained by the hacktivist collective Anonymous to expose secret collaboration between the government and various contractors. The covert factions Barrett’s work threatened are powerful, and fought back. Two years ago, Barrett was arrested and threatened with 100 years in prison—yes, you read that correctly—allegedly for threatening an FBI agent, concealing evidence, and linking to a website that contained stolen credit card numbers. The allegations themselves are sufficiently preposterous, and the threatened sentence sufficiently draconian, to make it clear that Barrett, like William Binney, Thomas Drake, Daniel Ellsberg, Jeremy Hammond, Jon Kiriakou, Chelsea Manning, Jesselyn Radack, Edward Snowden, Aaron Swartz, Thomas Tamm, and many others, is in fact being persecuted as an example to anyone else who would dare challenge America’s Deep State.
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http://boingboing.net/2014/12/16/opinion-why-you-should-care-a.html
In this case, I'm surprised by how many side with the FBI over the First Amendment.
"The heart grows stronger by facing the evils of the world." -- Ludwig van Beethoven
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