Always read @jacklgoldsmith. https://knightcolumbia.org/sites/default/files/content/Emerging_Threats_Goldsmith.pdf …pic.twitter.com/QbbPAMOvZc
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True. But if he didn't exist would that make our hypocrisy okay, or just successful?
It's not even hypocrisy, in my view. A government isn't a person. Governments as large and complex as ours are inevitably going to engage in self-contradiction. I'm just glad I was able to do some work (primarily for State Department DRL) that I think made a lasting contribution.
Jack's word. Actually I do think it's hypocrisy, and US hypocrisy on what constitutes fair online activity continues -- look at the press' blindness about all the info ops we conduct, even using SCL, a subsidiary of which RU may have used v us in 2016.
It bothered me when Jack used that word too. There's an understandable tendency to characterize governments as the same kind of ontological entity that a person is. But I think that's a mistake.
You don't think a large number of IC professionals think of our information operations as different than Russia's? Or even our hacking?
You don't think it's different, at all? I may be a hypocrite, but I do believe it is different, when a "civilized", democratic country *) does it, vs. a backward dictatorship. *) the distinction may be moot point in a year or two, true.
I believe there is a difference in kind and use, more applicable to China than Russia. I believe the US plays games with distinctions between public/private/contractor/managed criminal that are ultimately just that, games.
But I think anytime anyone is justifying one's behavior by invoking "civilization," it's a surefire, century's old sign they're dodging.
Yes, and one may convincingly argue that it contributed to this country's ongoing slide into not-so-civilized-after-all. But let me narrow it down. It's the presence of democratic oversight and accountability (however imperfect!) that constitutes the crucial difference for me.
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