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posted by martyb on Tuesday October 09 2018, @04:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the usa-usa-usa dept.

In March, the United States Special Operations Command, the section of the Defense Department supervising the US Special Forces, held a conference on the theme of "Sovereignty in the Information Age." The conference brought together Special Forces officers with domestic police forces, including officials from the New York Police Department, and representatives from technology companies such as Microsoft.

This meeting of top military, police and corporate representatives went unreported and unpublicized at the time. However, the Atlantic Council recently published a 21-page document summarizing the orientation of the proceedings. It is authored by John T. Watts, a former Australian Army officer and consultant to the US Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security.

[...] The private sector, therefore, must do the dirty work of the government, because government propaganda is viewed with suspicion by the population. "Business and the private sector may not naturally understand the role they play in combating disinformation, but theirs is one of the most important.... In the West at least, they have been thrust into a central role due to the general public's increased trust in them as institutions."

But this is only the beginning. Online newspapers should "consider disabling commentary systems—the function of allowing the general public to leave comments beneath a particular media item," while social media companies should "use a grading system akin to that used to rate the cleanliness of restaurants" to rate their users' political statements.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/05/pers-o05.html


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @07:55PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @07:55PM (#746589)

    There is always a balance that must be made between individual and group control. Dictstors are the worst of both, individuals wielding total group control. Stateless society is stupid because then one group can go rogue and take over the planet with a butter knife.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @11:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @11:16PM (#746696)

    You seem to think the concept of a "stateless society" implies no weapons (or butter-proof vests, for that matter) exist. Even if that were somehow true, I don't think I'm unique in having a number of agricultural tools in the shed that easily trump your butter-knife.