Re:Gangstalking: A New Type of Internet Conspiracy Cult
by hatchershoes on Monday July 22, 2019 @02:44PM
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The subtitle sums up the smugness of the article pretty well:
"What Happens When Mental Illness Becomes Coordinated".
Later in the article:
"For example, people who believe they are being gangstalked point to the many verified extensive surveillance forces that institutions use on the general public.
These can range from the collecting and selling of internet data to the NSA’s overzealousness that was exposed by Edward Snowden.
Conspiracy theory believers are not wrong to have concerns about these issues.
They cross the line, however, when they think their thoughts are being read or that the car they saw with the tinted windows was sent specifically to monitor them".
So the author thinks that anyone who is paranoid of the government is a "conspiracy theorist", more or less. The author obviously knows that mind-reading is a myth, because if mind-reading were possible, the author would have already known about it. Anybody practicing mind-reading would have published their protocols, and because the author has not heard about such protocols, they do not exist. Further, if you believe that a car is following you, you are apparently a conspiracy theorist, because cars do not follow people.
Here's another bit from the article:
"For instance, “Psy-Ops” refers to a type of surveillance operation that supposedly remotely transfers information to the brains of targeted individuals to affect their emotions and logic — in other words, mind-control".
In conclusion, this is a bunch of drivel and just another useless hit piece on people who distrust their government, who the author claims are mentally-ill conspiracy theorists.
Re:Gangstalking: A New Type of Internet Conspiracy Cult
by badrabbit on Saturday July 20, 2019 @08:19PM
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I don't know about paranoid people or the extremes this article speaks about. But group stalking is a thing,usually with an end goal but also for some sick psychological satisfaction.
It's much like how they get a person (usually a female) to install a remote access trojan and basically mess with them and share videos,webcam recordings,etc... On forums (pretty sick stufd,they call the victims their "slaves"). Haven't confirmed it first hand but I can see people coordinating cyberstalking. But in person stalking takes too much resource for me to believe it's done for the sole reason of just messing with someone.
Later in the article: "For example, people who believe they are being gangstalked point to the many verified extensive surveillance forces that institutions use on the general public. These can range from the collecting and selling of internet data to the NSA’s overzealousness that was exposed by Edward Snowden. Conspiracy theory believers are not wrong to have concerns about these issues. They cross the line, however, when they think their thoughts are being read or that the car they saw with the tinted windows was sent specifically to monitor them". So the author thinks that anyone who is paranoid of the government is a "conspiracy theorist", more or less. The author obviously knows that mind-reading is a myth, because if mind-reading were possible, the author would have already known about it. Anybody practicing mind-reading would have published their protocols, and because the author has not heard about such protocols, they do not exist. Further, if you believe that a car is following you, you are apparently a conspiracy theorist, because cars do not follow people.
Here's another bit from the article: "For instance, “Psy-Ops” refers to a type of surveillance operation that supposedly remotely transfers information to the brains of targeted individuals to affect their emotions and logic — in other words, mind-control".
This is simply false. The author didn't even bother to read the wikipedia article on the subject https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_warfare .
In conclusion, this is a bunch of drivel and just another useless hit piece on people who distrust their government, who the author claims are mentally-ill conspiracy theorists.
It's much like how they get a person (usually a female) to install a remote access trojan and basically mess with them and share videos,webcam recordings,etc... On forums (pretty sick stufd,they call the victims their "slaves"). Haven't confirmed it first hand but I can see people coordinating cyberstalking. But in person stalking takes too much resource for me to believe it's done for the sole reason of just messing with someone.