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yes, but undoubtedly the UK's security services know that the best way to pass something unpopular is to recast it as helping children women the vulnerable
by throwaway4PP 3y ago
yes, but undoubtedly the UK's security services know that the best way to pass something unpopular is to recast it as helping
children
women
the vulnerable
much like the content of the 2010 CIA memo that wikileaks released[1] stating that the best way to increase public support for US military actions in Afghanistan is to emphasize the oppression of women
[1]https://wikileaks.org/wiki/CIA_report_into_shoring_up_Afghan_war_support_in_Western_Europe,_11_Mar_2010 https://wikileaks.org/wiki/CIA_report_into_shoring_up_Afghan...
- trackflak 3y agoIt's annoying being one of the seemingly few people who sees through these techniques. I seldom voice support for a position because it does 'one thing' and WE NEED TO DO THE ONE THING NOW!!! Instead, as best as I can, I try to see the net effect on everything this proposition touches. Even forget spending hours stewing over facts and data, there is just an instinct inside me that picks up that it is a ruse, a fallacy, a cynical ploy. While that sounds like tooting my own horn, and I admit I've been taken in by some tricks before, it just isn't easy to stand by and watch. And even if you argue and make the case for online freedom, someone else just needs to come along and go, 'AH!, but what about the children!' and the masses are swayed.