Cointelpro Forum Techniques

[Ingraham Effingham]

A cool article about disinfo and the way the state manipulates online forums:

http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Forum_COINTELPRO_Techniques

I wonder if revleft is infiltrated. Through consensus cracking or whatever.

[Sasha]

since the source article is from ED and it for sure as hell has nothing to do with anti-fascism moved to chit-chat.

[Susurrus]

since the source article is from ED and it for sure as hell has nothing to do with anti-fascism moved to chit-chat.

It could well be used for anti-fascism on the internet, but it probably would be better off in Practice and Propaganda.

[Luís Henrique]

An agent may come to the forum in question with an anti-authoritarian, anarchist tone. This seems legitimate enough at first glance, as any research or activist forum is certain to be aware of the corruption of "The System", and those in charge of it. However, by directing this anti-authoritarian attitude towards the very moderation team who are there to ensure that research and activism can take place, they attempt to undermine the authority of and respect for the moderation team. "You mean you're banning people? Aren't you about free speech, the constitution?" Etc. This is a technique known as "Occupatio (http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Occupatio)", and presents the moderator with a catch-22; either ban the troublemaker and lend credence to the claim that the moderation team is hypocritical, or don't ban him and continue listening to him complain about how the site's staff is hypocritical. If there are other agents on the forum, and the moderators ban the troublemaker, they may begin hurling accusations of "witch hunts" and "McCarthyism" at the moderators, attempting to rile the userbase into a shitstorm against the moderators. Divide and conquer.


Aha. I am pretty sure the powers that be in Revleft have infiltrated Encyclopedia Dramatica, which they now can use as evidence that any questioning of their authority is a psy-op by the CIA.


Luís Henrique

[Sasha]

A cool article about disinfo and the way the state manipulates online forums:

http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Forum_COINTELPRO_Techniques

I wonder if revleft is infiltrated. Through consensus cracking or whatever.


It could well be used for anti-fascism on the internet, but it probably would be better off in Practice and Propaganda.


guys, the is ED, taking this serious is about as usefull as taking an article in the onion for truth. go read up on what the actual cointelpro techniques involved (hint; shooting people in the face and selling crack to poor people where the worst excesses) and come back to explain me why some shitty article about forum trolling deserves an place outside chitchat (or the trash for that matter)

[Ingraham Effingham]

guys, the is ED, taking this serious is about as usefull as taking an article in the onion for truth. go read up on what the actual cointelpro techniques involved (hint; shooting people in the face and selling crack to poor people where the worst excesses) and come back to explain me why some shitty article about forum trolling deserves an place outside chitchat (or the trash for that matter)

not to sound paranoid, but this is exactly what a CIA agent would say...;)

[ZeroNowhere]

not to sound paranoid, but this is exactly what a CIA agent would say...;)
That doesn't sound anything like what a CIA agent would say.

[Ingraham Effingham]

yeah i guess youre right, but I still dont think this is deserving of non-consideration

[Obs]

not to sound paranoid, but this is exactly what a CIA agent would say...;)
why can't i negrep this post

[Thirsty Crow]

In all fairness, everything that was said in this thread sounds like something a CIA agent would say.
Especially Obs. Neg rep is divide and conquer.

(though, this posts also sounds like something a CIA agent would say; it seems that the CIA is also a spiritual entity capable of possessing peoples' minds)

[Ingraham Effingham]

Ok ok i get that this whole thing was kinda stupid

[¿Que?]

Ok ok i get that this whole thing was kinda stupid
I enjoy a good ED article, don't get me wrong, but as psycho said, to take it seriously is just kind of silly.