It's obvious Russia is engaging in cyber warfare. What do we do? Engage in more warfare online? Turing forums into battlegrounds?
Name me a superpower that isn't...
Every big country does this, don't think that US doesn't. They freaking invented it.
I can't give you a name of those who don't, but I can give you a name of those who do:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_Internet_propagandaThe United States has two known propoganda campaigns, both which I think are justified:
1:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Strategic_Counterterrorism_CommunicationsIn this campaign, they specifically trolled ISIS recruiters.
2:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_VoiceThis project, I was a lot more skeptical of. Reading the details, anyone could utilize that setup for nefarious reasons. To be honest, I think we overpaid a tiny bit for it.
Then again, looking at the price of a new forum, this is nothing.
>USCC commander David Petraeus, in his congressional testimony, stated that Operation Earnest Voice would "reach [a country's] regional audiences through traditional media, as well as via Web sites and regional public-affairs blogging," as an effort to "counter extremist ideology and propaganda".
I was alright with this purpose of the operation, counter extremist ideology and false information.
>However, his successor, James Mattis, altered the program to have "regional blogging" fall under general USCC public-affairs activity. On how they would operate on these blogs, Petraeus explained: "We bring out the moderate voices. We amplify those. And in more detail, we detect and we flag if there is adversary, hostile, corrosive content in some open-source Web forum, [and] we engage with the Web administrators to show that this violates Web site provider policies.
This is where they took something that could have been used for good and now just turned it into a political breading ground.
It's obvious Russia is engaging in cyber warfare. What do we do? Engage in more warfare online? Turing forums into battlegrounds?
There are no good and bad guys here, those are just factions.
You see, this is where you're wrong. You have the right to choose your faction. Looking at what each faction does, you can clearly see a picture of villainy and heroics.
It's obvious Russia is engaging in cyber warfare. What do we do? Engage in more warfare online? Turing forums into battlegrounds?
International law goes both ways. Only time when International law is useful is if you are exempt from it while others aren't.
Don't worry, International law never meant sh*t. It is just an excuse for veto powers to do what they want.
Country A goes in legal warfare with country B. Veto power steps in, makes a deal with one side, declares the war on other without being attacked first.
Veto power in UN is charged with illegal warfare for attacking a country without the need to defend itself, veto power vetoes any action to be taken against it in order to punish it for it's crime.
Welcome to 21st century...
The League of Nations was exactly the same near this time in the 20th century. A country kills a person in a foreign land and "tsk, tsk, shame on you". It's the same shit as then.
The only difference now in the 21st century is the
soldiers are behind the keyboards.
