• paddirn@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Given the amount of internet fuckery that happened in the 2016 election, I’m not surprised that the Pentagon is monitoring everything going on in the Internet. I’m not sure what they can do about it in most cases, but I guess it helps to keep tabs.

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      2 months ago

      We’ve known that the NSA stores everything they can get their hands on for more than a decade. It’s one of those things we just pretend isn’t still happening.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 months ago

      During the Civil War, Lincoln had every telegraph line in the country routed though the White House. Wild Wild West the movie didn’t do the ops history justice, but was close, and it was fiction.

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        2 months ago

        SMH my head, if not even Wild Wild West is historically accurate, then who can we even trust anymore?

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          2 months ago

          I truly LOL’d at that hah! It was actually a deep ref to the beginning the movie in DC where they did have telegraph stations all over the place in the white house. But the movie not explaining that they also were listening because it was completely irrelevant to the plot hahaha.