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NCLefty

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5. Sure, but it's dangerous for any country to be allowed to do this without response.

Reply to mysteryowl (Original post)

Thu Oct 17, 2019, 11:26 PM

Oct 2019

It could be for us this time, for GOP next time. How many countries will get involved? It's a nightmare to even ponder, and it's not going away as long as we have the anonymous Internet.

A new report from Freedom House released Tuesday found that governments in 30 countries — not just the Kremlin, but also the regimes in Turkey, Venezuela and the Philippines — are now “mass producing their own content to distort the digital landscape in their favor.”

https://www.vox.com/2017/11/14/16640300/internet-freedom-facebook-twitter-google-us-russia-disinformation

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Repuks not doing anything to protect our elections, just might backfire on them. [View all] mysteryowl Oct 2019 OP

maybe, FoxNewsSucks Oct 2019 #1

I thought that was what you were going to say. About now, anyone that had the ability brewens Oct 2019 #2

I thought about that too. The world hates trump. wasupaloopa Oct 2019 #3

nope Skittles Oct 2019 #4

Sure, but it's dangerous for any country to be allowed to do this without response. NCLefty Oct 2019 #5