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Lonestarblue

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11. Frightening part about changing US national will through propaganda needs to be repealed.
Sat Aug 24, 2019, 08:10 AM
Aug 2019

Our government is a mess of special interest laws that do not serve the people. It needs a thorough house cleaning, not only of white nationalists and religious extremists but also of bad laws like this one. Here’s an article about the propaganda part. https://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-legalizes-propaganda-2012-5

Plus an excerpt:

Davis defines IO as "the integrated employment of electronic warfare (EW), computer network operations (CNO), psychological operations (PSYOP), military deception (MILDEC), and operations security (OPSEC), in concert with specified supporting and related capabilities, to influence, disrupt, corrupt or usurp adversarial human and automated decision making while protecting our own."

IO are primarily used to target foreign audiences, but Davis cites numerous senior leaders who want to (in the words of Colonel Richard B. Leap) "protect a key friendly center of gravity, to wit US national will" by repealing the Smith-Mundt Act to allow the direct deployment of these tactics on the American public.

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