Flutterby™! : GCHQ: worse than 4chan

Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet

The secretive British spy agency GCHQ has developed covert tools to seed the internet with false information, including the ability to manipulate the results of online polls, artificially inflate pageview counts on web sites, “amplif[y]” sanctioned messages on YouTube, and censor video content judged to be “extremist.” The capabilities, detailed in documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, even include an old standby for pre-adolescent prank callers everywhere: A way to connect two unsuspecting phone users together in a call.

As TechDirt puts it, Latest Snowden Revelations Suggest GCHQ Is Just Like 4Chan Trolls, But With More Firepower. And, really, if we look at the foreign policy of the major superpowers as informed by a bunch of asshole 5cr1pt k1dd13s... well... all of a sudden the 20th Century snaps into sharp focus.

The sad part is that we keep voting for assholes that leave these assholes in power.