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Companies learning to flip elections perfected their tactics in smaller or emerging countries, such as Latvia, Trinidad, or Nigeria, before turning to markets involving elections in developed nations. Paul Mason suggests that while at the moment there is a lot of angst from people being reminded of how their harvested data is used, it is really the union of private espionage, cracking, and "black ops" capabilities that should be setting off alarms.
Disturbingly, both CA and SCL have high-level contracts with governments, giving them access to secret intelligence both in the US and the UK. SCL is on List X, which allows it to hold British secret intelligence at its facilities.
It now appears that techniques they used in Ukraine and Eastern Europe to counteract Russian influence, and against Islamist terrorism in the Middle East, were then used to influence elections in the heart of Western democracy itself.
Let's be clear about what we're facing. A mixture of free market dogmatism plus constraints imposed by the rule of law has led, over the past decades, to the creation of an alternative, private, secret state.
When it was only focused on the enemies and rivals of the West, or hapless politicians in the global south, nobody minded. Now it is being used as a weapon to tear apart democracy in Britain and the US we care — and rightly so.
From New Statesman: We need to destroy the election-rigging industry before it destroys us
(Score: 5, Insightful) by jmorris on Tuesday March 27 2018, @08:02PM (2 children)
Is any of this stuff half as effective as the voter manipulation from ABC, Disney, NBC, Universal Pictures, CBS, Viacom, CNN, HBO, government owned PBS, BBC, DW, etc? Or the new twitter, Youtube, etc. political censorship? Lets start worrying about the bigger threats, ok?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by bob_super on Tuesday March 27 2018, @08:46PM
You forgot Al Jazeera, RT, Fox, France24, FoxNews, CCTV, Kyodo, The times of India, AP, AFP, NHK ...
Don't let your hatred of a particular bias blind you.
Read all of the ones we've both listed, and in their commonality, you will see the Truth ... the full unbiased Judeo-Marxo-Illuminati message undelying all "News", brother.
*makes cryptic sign*
*vanishes in a puff of smoke*
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 28 2018, @01:41PM
How, oh how, did you leave out Facebook?
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