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In reply to the discussion: How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations [View all]woo me with science
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What is happening in messaging from our own government is unconscionable, malignant, and creepy as hell.
We've experienced massive betrayals by our government in recent years, but these sorts of revelations....mass spying; smear and disinformation; constant, orchestrated campaigns of manipulation aimed at citizens...
The relationship of the people to the US government has been fundamentally changed, and in a profound way. Perhaps we have not lived in a free country for some time now, but they have destroyed any remaining illusion of life in this country most of us were taught to believe was our own.
These are the tactics of a totalitarian state acting viciously against the interests of its own people, not something any of us should have to associate with the United States of America.