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afnasofion
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Comment · 7 years ago
All military agencies, including that of the United States will be watching this with interest. The ability to stop the presses for a newspaper critical of the administration on a given day, say before the start of a war or around the time of a coup, is a very useful capability. It allows an important story to get drowned in the news cycle and can reduce the level of outrage at the population level by desynchronizing it.