{"id":5941,"date":"2015-02-23T15:43:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T20:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5941"},"modified":"2015-02-23T15:43:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T20:43:59","slug":"the-trolls-guide-to-internet-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5941","title":{"rendered":"The Troll\u2019s Guide to Internet Disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/02\/trolls-guide-internet-disruption.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Troll\u2019s Guide to Internet Disruption<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>The 15 Rules of Web Disruption<\/h3>\n<p><em>David Martin\u2019s\u00a0<a title=\"Thirteen Rules for Truth Suppression\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brasscheck.com\/martin.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thirteen Rules for Truth Suppression<\/a>, H. Michael Sweeney\u2019s\u00a0<a title=\"25 Rules of Disinformation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2011\/05\/twenty-five-rules-of-disinformation.html\">25 Rules of Disinformation<\/a>\u00a0(and now Brandon Smith\u2019s\u00a0<a title=\"Disinformation: How It Works\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/disinformation-how-it-works\" target=\"_blank\">Disinformation: How It Works<\/a>) are classic lessons on how to spot disruption and disinformation tactics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We\u2019ve seen a number of tactics come and go over the years. Here are the ones we see a lot of currently.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1. Start a\u00a0<a title=\"partisan divide-and-conquer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2011\/07\/the-founding-fathers-tried-to-warn-us-about-the-threat-from-a-two-party-system.html\">partisan divide-and-conquer<\/a>\u00a0fight or otherwise push emotional buttons to sow discord and ensure that cooperation is thwarted. Get people fighting against each other instead of the\u00a0<a title=\"corrupt powers-that-be\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2012\/08\/roosevelt-to-dissolve-the-unholy-alliance-between-corrupt-business-and-corrupt-politics-is-the-first-task-of-the-statesmanship-of-the-day.html\">corrupt powers-that-be<\/a>. Use baseless caricatures to rile everyone up. For example, start a religious war whenever possible using stereotypes like \u201call Jews are selfish\u201d, \u201call Christians are crazy\u201d or \u201call Muslims are terrorists\u201d. Accuse the author of being a gay, pro-abortion limp-wristed wimp or being a fundamentalist pro-war hick when the discussion has nothing to do with abortion, sexuality, religion, war or region. Appeal to people\u2019s basest prejudices and biases. And \u2013 as Sweeney explains \u2013 push the author into a defensive posture:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sidetrack opponents with name calling and ridicule \u2026 Associate opponents with unpopular titles such as \u201ckooks\u201d, \u201cright-wing\u201d, \u201cliberal\u201d, \u201cleft-wing\u201d, \u201cterrorists\u201d, \u201cconspiracy buffs\u201d, \u201cradicals\u201d, \u201cmilitia\u201d, \u201cracists\u201d, \u201creligious fanatics\u201d, \u201csexual deviates\u201d, and so forth. This makes others shrink from support out of fear of gaining the same label, and you avoid dealing with issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(The person trying to smear reputation may not be a random knucklehead \u2026 he may, in fact, be\u00a0<a title=\"a government agent\" href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2014\/02\/24\/jtrig-manipulation\/\" target=\"_blank\">a government agent<\/a>, or\u00a0<a title=\"a member of the group\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/08\/trolls-whats-confusing-nature-game.html\">a member of the group<\/a>\u00a0he\u2019s smearing.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Troll\u2019s Guide to Internet Disruption The 15 Rules of Web Disruption David Martin\u2019s\u00a0Thirteen Rules for Truth Suppression, H. Michael Sweeney\u2019s\u00a025 Rules of Disinformation\u00a0(and now Brandon Smith\u2019s\u00a0Disinformation: How It Works) are classic lessons on how to spot disruption and disinformation tactics. We\u2019ve seen a number of tactics come and go over the years. Here are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3717,1339,3715,3714,3716],"class_list":["post-5941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-disinformation","tag-internet","tag-internet-troll","tag-internet-trolling","tag-truth-suppression"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5942,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941\/revisions\/5942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}