Political Operatives Faked Millions of Comments Against Net Nuetrality
I try to shy away from politics on this website but I can&#x27;t shake this nagging feeling that this says something important about the current state of the US and the world. I am not a US citizen nor a resident, nor am I a Russian citizen or resident, so my opinions are absolutely subjective.<p>I feel like whenever an external agent such as Russia opens up the troll farms, the US gets all up in arms about the threat to democracy and how its poor country is under assault by the big bad meanies sending their virtual gargoyles to pray on its innocent citizens and influence their voting habits and put whoever they want in charge of the country and oh woe me, <i>while</i> they are doing it to their own citizens!<p>I don&#x27;t hear Russia on the world stage as vocal about it as the US, if anything I&#x27;m hearing a lot more pragmatic (not something everyone agrees with) geopolitical discussion coming from that side, and I don&#x27;t hear about them actively targeting their own citizens in &quot;psyops&quot; with the same fervor as the US.<p>Of course, this could mean that the press is free in the US and totally controlled in Russia so of course we hear only one side of the story, but I have this nagging feeling that whereas Russian government is actively and directly sabotaging its citizens, the US is engaged in far more psychologically dangerous activities targeting its state of being, and that the most damage is done by internal forces, not by external baddies.<p>I dunno, might be totally off, who knows...