The military loved Discord for Gen Z recruiting. Then the leaks began
Just file this in the bin marked government-corporate propaganda aimed at expanding the surveillance state and implementing China&#x27;s approach to monitoring citizen communications on various platforms.<p>The consolidated corporate media seems to believe that if this 21-year old leaker had all his communications monitored and was tagged with a constantly updated social credit score, he could have been flagged as a risk much earlier and these embarrassing documents about the scale of the US government&#x27;s involvement in the Ukraine war could have been kept from the public.  That&#x27;s of course a profoundly anti-Bill-of-Rights authoritarian stance, maybe adopted because &#x27;the ruling class in America hates our freedoms?&#x27;<p>Lord forbid the Ukraine war end in some kind of negotiated settlement, that would mean Europe might lift sanctions on Russian gas, reducing the demand for LNG exports...  as well as reducing the diversion of taxpayer dollars to bloated military-industrial contracts.<p>&gt; &quot;U.S. LNG exporters boosted shipments to Europe by more than 137% in the first 11 months of 2022 from the same period in 2021...&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;energy&#x2F;us-lng-exports-both-lifeline-drain-europe-2023-maguire-2022-12-20&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;energy&#x2F;us-lng-exports-both-...</a><p>It&#x27;s kind of astonishing how bad the Washington Post has gotten since Jeff Bezos bought it...oh and look, Discord uses Google Cloud, not AWS! Well that explains a lot.