Re:Germany complains to Moscow over pre-election phishing at...
by dylan604 on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @10:52AM
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The Russians (and other actors) must be pissing themselves laughing at how easily they can interfere with democracy by making a few strokes of the keyboard. No bullets fired, no fellow countryman's blood shed, nothing but the minor inconviencing of some electrons. Yet the West is damn near civil war based on some social media posts.
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Re:Germany complains to Moscow over pre-election phishing at...
by jfengel on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @04:20PM
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In America, we've been doing it to ourselves for decades. I would trace it to at least the mid-90s, following patterns set up in the 50s and 60s. It's the same thing we've always done, magnified first by mass media, then by social media.
I don't know why it seems to work so well in other places. Europe, presumably, has even older divisions to employ. They're hardly immune to the basic foibles of Americans.