TYT: Russia's Online Troll Army Is Huge, Hilarious (seems appropriate today to post this again)

[uhnope]

"Russia's campaign to shape international opinion around its invasion of Ukraine has extended to recruiting and training a new cadre of online trolls that have been deployed to spread the Kremlin's message on the comments section of top American websites.

Plans attached to emails leaked by a mysterious Russian hacker collective show IT managers reporting on a new ideological front against the West in the comments sections of Fox News, Huffington Post, The Blaze, Politico, and WorldNetDaily.

The bizarre hive of social media activity appears to be part of a two-pronged Kremlin campaign to claim control over the internet, launching a million-dollar army of trolls to mold American public opinion as it cracks down on internet freedom at home."*

The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read More http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. I don't see DU on the excerpted short list

So maybe our Putin-loving trolls are simply volunteers.

[DeSwiss]

3. Right. Let's worry about Putin.

- The NSA'a all up in everyone's asses here in the good ol' USofA -- but it's Putin's trolls we need to worry about. Right.

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[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

5. I'm only 'worried' about him inasmuch as

he seems to want to follow in Hitler's footsteps, and I'd really rather not have an excuse handed to the war profiteers to push the US into yet another war.

[DeSwiss]

15. A repeat of Hitler is what you're worried about, huh?

- Right. You might try opening a window......

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[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

16. Get back to me when the US starts annexing other countries and proclaiming them part of the US.

That's what I mean by following in his footsteps. Instituting land grabs from nearby countries and declaring them part of Russia. First Crimea, next eastern Ukraine, then who knows who gets to be next?

[DeSwiss]

19. When you control their money, you don't need to annex them.

- Annexing's so 20th century. It's for 3rd-World countries!

We do wars for the fun and profits!


BTW: the MIC needs no excuses for you or me. They play the war songs and we dance.

[uhnope]

6. NSA fake panic in the service of Putin-love

Right.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Seems we've seen a few of these on DU

[DeSwiss]

17. ....

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[jtuck004]

4. Probably no larger than the one on this side of the ocean. n/t

[uhnope]

7. "probably" no evidence for this notion of yours at all n/t

[imthevicar]

8. Nothing More than Any government does

That includes ours! Besides this is all just so much fear mongering.

[uhnope]

9. yeah right

it's not fear mongering, it's fact

[imthevicar]

10. Oh I see,

It's OK when Our Government does it! And Before I forget Here is something to Chew on.
http://rense.com/general37/char.htm

[uhnope]

11. what else does Putin want us to think?

[Behind the Aegis]

12. Have you ever checked out that site?

Besides being rank with anti-Semitism (something some have no issue with), it is also deeply racist. There is a real irony for them posting such an "article." And, just for shits and giggles, search "Dr. Lawrence Britt".

[uhnope]

13. you link to a site promoting anti-Semiticism with a spam email article

oh, and that author doesn't quite exist, isn't a doctor, and the article is debunked here
http://civilliberty.about.com/b/2007/09/10/one-nation-underrated.htm

[DeSwiss]

18. +1000

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details. The foremost, or indeed the sole condition which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is to love equality, or to get men to believe you love it. Thus the science of despotism, which was once so complex, is simplified, and reduced as it were to a single principle.

They (the emperors) frequently abused their power arbitrarily to deprive their subjects of property or of life: their tyranny was extremely onerous to the few, but it did not reach the greater number; .. But it would seem that if despotism were to be established amongst the democratic nations of our days it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild, it would degrade men without tormenting them.

After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the government then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting.

Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence: it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

~Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II (1840)

[uhnope]

20. US society is equivalent to that of Putin's totalitarian society? Really?

you Putinistas should be ashamed