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Re:Amazon’s Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Your... by pdkl95 on Thursday December 13, 2018 @01:45PM (#18674853)
Variations of this tactic (disrupt the leader before they create a useful coalition) used to be called COINTELPRO[1]. The methods used changed as technology changed, but the core tactic is still used in many places. GCHQ even has an entire department dedicated to this type of disruption: JTRIG[2].

> then it has truly horrific consequences for social organization and the peaceful transition of power (democracy).

Snowden tried to tell everybody that. I recommend reading the actual documents in [2]; they paint a very clear picture about the tactics being used.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#Intended_effects

[2] https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

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Re:Amazon’s Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Your... by haidut on Saturday December 15, 2018 @12:33PM (#18689324)
Similar response to the one I made to other commenters in the thread. The MUCH bigger story is FBI standing ready to kill Occupy protestors with snipers "if deemed necessary". All of these disruption tactics articles are just "soft" news to gently irritate the public and convince it that the truth is known, is regularly leaked and the press will keep the public informed. The real truth (the planned murder of activists MLK-style) is mostly NOT known, virtually no news outlets write about it, and FBI refused to declassify it. The truth is this: If somebody is a real threat to established order they get killed, plain and simple. This should be the discussion, not "disruption" tactics of the police and how allowable/legal they are.
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