RE: Analysis: Disinformation and Infiltration on Steemit #1
wow. this is way above my head in all directions but I smell BS. You make very valid points in the way you compare (dis)information and you made a strong argument.. liars (no matter what kind or for what reason) always mirror their guilt, lies and feelings onto those they accuse as well as twist the line of fire as far away from their own actions as possible..
As soon as the accused liar begins shifting away from defending facts with facts and moves into attacking the questioner.. well you know they're hiding something.
I don't know who any of these people are except Jeff Berwick (obviously I live under a rock LOL but I have stumbled onto his videos and I generally thought I liked what he was saying) with that said I've never taken the time to dive deep into anything said or he's done more than the quick videos I've seen. So thank you for digging around in the garbage for these types of slip ups and give aways.
I loved this:
Since I came to steemit, I have been wondering about 1. is steemit run by cops 2. are there undercover profiles on here infiltrating all anarchism and everything else? 3. and if there are, how can i ruin their day?
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keep working through privacy workshop, and the Truth Now post, that is where the good information and links to people smarter than me are. It is a workshop in the sense that it is not meant to be read, it is a train of thought meant to be experienced, you have to click on the archived links and see for yourself.
Not a single one of the people who I accuse of not being for real have done that as much as you already have. They know me and people like me, that one way to really bother me is to pretend that all of my work doesn't even exist, that my ideas are summarily invalid. They play these games.
By their fruits ye shall know them, my writing stands for itself, I know what I'm doing and writing and I mean what I say. It is not a game, there are real people being hurt badly while government agents distract and divide everyone and I've had enough of it.
sunlight is the best disinfectant etc. don't be a stranger :)
thanks!! I'm definitely putting those workshops at the top of my "to-do" list. I love that they're meant to be interactive and allow people to learn these things for themselves. I can already tell this is going to keep me busy for a while!
let me know if you have any questions, part of the workshop aspect is following the links and interacting with the posts themselves, adding links or questioning them.
someone compared privacy workshop to a doctoral thesis, i think it goes beyond that. it is not schoolwork and it is not submitted to any institution, it is submitted to individuals to help them live in a more accurate world. you can't have any privacy if you don't who or what to trust, ie if you should have an alexa or trust amazon. it's about research methods and what credibility means as much as any one piece of knowledge, as there is never an end point to understanding the world in which you live. there is a crisis at the moment where people don't have the guts to even ask the questions they are so intimidated by the power structures towering over them.
got to fight that, down the road of ignorance and post-truth is no world in which i would want to raise a child.
you bring up such a crucial point - the people have no idea which companies to trust or who owns who, who's selling info and who is not. Even the "truthers" are infiltrated as you brought up so whwre do we even get the real info? Sadly most people are looking just for someone to tell them who to trust - they do not want to do their own research. It's very sad and concerning for the future
indeed.
Well, even if everyone on earth is telling me it's a good idea to be ignorant, I will still not be convinced.
But I will not sire a child onto a doomed planet. The problem I believe is that more children are being born than can possibly be educated in a system so complex. So the people who are at the top are like 'well if you want to have x number of babies a year well then in order for us to manage all of that, the best way is for you all to be ignorant sheep'
I reject that. The promise of the internet was that everyone could access the information to educate themselves, not that everyone could access anti-information to make them more ignorant.
Even I am the last one writing rational and reasonable posts on the internet, and believe me this is how it feels almost all of the time, then I am going to do it.
Ignorance is not strength, freedom is not slavery, war is not peace.
Courage is the virtue that makes all the others possible.
seriously!!