We have all run into them. All over the Internet, there
are horrible trolls that seem to delight in making life miserable for other
people. But the worst trolls of all are the government trolls. And thanks to Edward Snowden, we now have some
startling new evidence of what really goes on behind the scenes. According to
newly revealed documents, British spy agency GCHQ is manipulating online
discussions, infiltrating the computers of specific targets, purposely
destroying reputations, altering the results of online polls, and using
Twitter, Facebook and YouTube for propaganda and espionage purposes. If people
don’t start getting outraged about this now, the governments of the western
world are going to see it as a green light to do even more. Eventually, it
might get so bad that we won’t be able to trust much of anything that we see on
the Internet.......Read more at
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