People's search habits, social media post history, and even retail transaction details are among the many kinds of data up for sale in our cybernetic Elysian Fields, to which advertisers, hackers and political operatives can all gain access in order to sell us a coffee maker, extort money from us, or ostensibly change our vote in an election. The solution, according to cyber-defense researchers, is the development of regulatory frameworks that can parse through the content and designate its appropriateness for mass consumption. A "Ministry of Truth," so to speak, that can mitigate any disruptions to the status quo that might seep through in the Wild West of social media platforms.
As Vltchek concluded last year, "The Western firewall is complete." In preparation for the coming class war, the U.S. national-security state has constructed a labyrinth of propagandistic indoctrination, fabricated stories designed to confuse, and censorship against foreign media and anti-imperialist journalists. And to preemptively retain support for the U.S. military during their planned domestic occupations, they've utilized the tactic of projection, accusing Washington's rivals of all the genocidal and anti-democratic actions that Washington itself has perpetrated. Such is the environment that revolutionary socialists in the heart of the imperialist beast must overcome.
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