3. The Goldberg story is so bizarre that it is easy to treat as an outlier. Yet in many ways, Goldberg is symptomatic of our times.
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4. Counterfeiting, sock-puppetry, and impersonations are hardly unknown on the internet. In fact they pervade social media.
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5. On twitter we chat with long dead presidents (*ahem*
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6. Joshua Goldberg impersonations allegedly became entangled with terrorism. But how different is that from FBI use of agent provocateurs?
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7. Almost all "successful" government terrorism prosecutions involve impersonation and entrapment: the reverse Joshua Goldberg.
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8. Old Cold War joke: Communist party USA thoroughly infiltrated by FBI & USA gov't by KGB. So USA saved by a communist coup.
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9. Hardly an accident that Breitbart hit piece on Shaun King that Goldberg helped start written by FBI informant.
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@theseantcollins Brandon Darby, the author of anti-King piece. See here: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/brandon-darby-anarchist-fbi-terrorism …2 replies 0 retweets 9 likes -
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@HeerJeet@theseantcollins@JoshHarkinson It was Milo Yiannopoulous who wrote the Shaun King piece, not Darby.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@CathyYoung63 @theseantcollins @JoshHarkinson Ah, you're right! Darby did the (horrible) piece on that Texas undergraduate who tweeted.
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