U.S. Charges 13 Russians, 3 Companies for Interfering with Election

Re:U.S. Charges 13 Russians, 3 Companies for Interfering wit... by marshray on Friday February 16, 2018 @02:45PM (#16395390)

> I bothers me no end that influence/propaganda operations continuously get termed "hacking the election"

You realize you're on a site named "Hacker News", using the term to refer to influence operations, right?

> If we, as a nation, were actually serving our citizens and maintaining the level of education and sustaining the standard of living required for democracy to function across most of the population I do not think these Russian-style campaigns would be very effective.

And this is exactly what classic Soviet/Russian propaganda wants you to conclude: "So in practice I guess the 'Democracy' system is no better than the Soviet Communist/Putinist system after all."

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Re:U.S. Charges 13 Russians, 3 Companies for Interfering wit... by 8note on Friday February 16, 2018 @02:50PM (#16395437)

thats a big leap you're making from "we need better a better engaged and more knowledgeable populace with a higher standard of living" to "we should scrap democracy and become Soviets"

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Re:U.S. Charges 13 Russians, 3 Companies for Interfering wit... by moorhosj on Friday February 16, 2018 @03:03PM (#16395578)

Almost as big of a leap as putting something that was never said in quotes.

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