On Tue, Feb 25, 2014, at 12:28 PM, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
On 2014-02-24, Cypher wrote:
This is a test to validate if I am properly receiving list email. I've not seen anything in a few days.
Please die horribly. And your kids. The dog too.
Sometimes I think about unsubscribing from cpunks because of comments like these and other long-winded nonsense threads. But after reading the latest piece from The Intercept (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/) I've got a feeling that some of the trolls on here are deliberate, hopefully driving us to unsubscribe: "One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction." "Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes considers desirable." Mass-unsubscribes because of some of the previous hate-threads sounds like one of those "desirable outcomes". So instead of complaining like Sampo did, "don't feed the trolls" as it could all be part of some JTRIG/HB Gary/Palantir campaign. Just mark-as-read and move on. Alfie -- Alfie John alfiej@fastmail.fm