The Truth... The Lies... The Hacking... French Fries...

I've written about hacking and people putting words in my mouth in several previous posts...

• Words in my mouth... where did those come from? Oh you are implying I said them...
• Censorship... do barriers constitute Censorship?
• Catching a hacker... how much does media play upon public ignorance?
• Is there evidence of "Russian" hacking or is it in fact alphabet agency propaganda?

I this time am inspired by what I believe is an exceptional article from www.returnofkings.com. The article can be read in it's entirety here. I wish to show some excerpts from this article and I encourage you to go read it yourself. I do believe this is the first time I have done this. The author of that article did an exceptional job. Now I need to see if I can get them to come to steemit.com. This article was written by Max Roscoe and has the title How The Media Lies Through Omission And Distortion.

He begins with mentioning Frederic Bastiat.

Much as Frederic Bastiat details economics as the study of the seen and the unseen, news in America can be described as the study of the told and the untold. While authoritarian states like North Korea will make outright lies to its people, such as “Our space shuttle program is progressing well” and “Dear Leader Kim Jong Un is so pure he never defecates,” the main tool of propaganda in the west is to report limited truths while hiding important facts.

He then further goes into the Russians being claimed to have hacked the U.S. election, and unlike me he doesn't approach it from a technical approach. Instead he just brilliantly lays it out. This is my opinion of course.

What does that mean? Well, Russians did indeed support sabotage and disruptive tactics against Americans in the Cold War before I was born. But such a misleading statement would be as truthful as spreading fear and hatred of Gingers after the Boston Marathon bombing because it was “consistent with the methods and motivations of the IRA,” so the logical response is to cut diplomatic ties with Ireland.

The above statement is due the the fact the government has not provided ANY proof the Russians hacked anything. They have stated it is "consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts". This makes the paragraph above by Mr. Roscoe quite accurate.

In other words, a statement that may be loosely based on fact but is utterly meaningless and misleading, and has no connection to the truth.

This is very true. It is misdirection, and preying upon the fact most of the populace never was taught critical thinking and how to identify logical fallacies when they are used upon them.

Source: From the referenced article

Of course, if the feds want to convict you of a crime, they are able to use confidential informants, warrantless wiretapping, and secret “national security letters” that compel others to snoop on you, without the possibility of you ever knowing by whom or even that the spying was done. Because when the tables are turned, it matters not who is making the accusations or what the sources are.

He continues with this excellent statement.

But when the government itself is breaking the fundamental rules laid out in its very founding document – the US Constitution, suddenly the source of the accusation is all that matters, not the actual crime.

I am not going to quote more of this brilliant article. All I really would like you to do is go READ IT.

Steem On!