Indiscriminate mass killing and destruction is still mass killing and destruction, regardless of any objectives. A regime official or a school for girls? Who cares.
Mass surveillance doesn’t need to target terrorists and opponents, the goal is to terrorize the population into submission. The more arbitrary it is, the better.
Disinformation doesn’t need to be believable, you just need to flood the public discourse to drown any reality-based opinion.
No, the problem is worse than that - it’s not very good at ANY of those thing.
That’s the neat part. It doesn’t even need to be.
Indiscriminate mass killing and destruction is still mass killing and destruction, regardless of any objectives. A regime official or a school for girls? Who cares.
Mass surveillance doesn’t need to target terrorists and opponents, the goal is to terrorize the population into submission. The more arbitrary it is, the better.
Disinformation doesn’t need to be believable, you just need to flood the public discourse to drown any reality-based opinion.