I mean, you can talk about legality and find all sorts of technical restrictions in code.
But who believes any of this shit was enforced?
The closest thing we’ve had to a government action against US propaganda was Biden’s War On TikTok. And that was for the unspeakable crime of mentioning the Gaza Genocide too many times.
I don’t doubt it, I seem to recall vaguely something along those lines. They never followed those laws preventing domestic operations anyway.
Also, they use the 5 eyes network as an end run around those, they spy on americans, or do operations, and put their allies letterhead on the operation, that then shares the information back with them. Even as it’s the us doing the entire thing itself. It’s a country run by lawyers, for billionaires.
And the courts have given them license to further ignore laws and protections from the government to have contractors do it for them, or use information the private sector was allowed to gather from us, and buy and use it, without warrants or judges or oversight of any kind.
But it also gives these private companies way too much power, merging the private power and money with contacts to government, that make Thiel and his ilk way too powerful, now with all the data broker information plus every bit of data from every federal agency that doge exported to his banks secretly, don’t for a second think that’s not what this was all about.
They caught them doing it in a couple of instances too, like at the labour department, no one is even trying to defend the country or it’s laws this time around everyone gave up in government and business. It’s only some of us citizens that are still trying to contest the republic being surrendered to the worst pieces of shit in the country.
Didn’t Obama overturn a law that made it legal for propaganda to be done to Americans on American soil? Smith-Mundt act.
Not really. They lifted the ban on the domestic dissemination of materials originating from the State Department.
Other departments and external agencies were, and still are, able to target propaganda at US citizens.
So no in theory, yes in practice?
Yes in theory. Yes in practice.
The error is believing that propaganda against US citizens was ever illegal.
I mean, you can talk about legality and find all sorts of technical restrictions in code.
But who believes any of this shit was enforced?
The closest thing we’ve had to a government action against US propaganda was Biden’s War On TikTok. And that was for the unspeakable crime of mentioning the Gaza Genocide too many times.
I would even argue that Fox News is propaganda.
Bold and controversial
More importantly. Perfectly legal.
Why be scared of State Department overseas propaganda when you have tucker carlson.
I don’t doubt it, I seem to recall vaguely something along those lines. They never followed those laws preventing domestic operations anyway.
Also, they use the 5 eyes network as an end run around those, they spy on americans, or do operations, and put their allies letterhead on the operation, that then shares the information back with them. Even as it’s the us doing the entire thing itself. It’s a country run by lawyers, for billionaires.
And now it’s all funneled through Palantir and the various other tentacles of the private sector.
The CIA/NSA are just retail customers of privatized surveillance.
And the courts have given them license to further ignore laws and protections from the government to have contractors do it for them, or use information the private sector was allowed to gather from us, and buy and use it, without warrants or judges or oversight of any kind.
But it also gives these private companies way too much power, merging the private power and money with contacts to government, that make Thiel and his ilk way too powerful, now with all the data broker information plus every bit of data from every federal agency that doge exported to his banks secretly, don’t for a second think that’s not what this was all about.
They caught them doing it in a couple of instances too, like at the labour department, no one is even trying to defend the country or it’s laws this time around everyone gave up in government and business. It’s only some of us citizens that are still trying to contest the republic being surrendered to the worst pieces of shit in the country.