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Trolling Al Qaeda... For Peace? 207

The Mister Purple writes "There is a small initiative underway to combat Islamic militant recruiting on the Internet... by trolling them. Quoting the article: 'The program, called Viral Peace, seeks to occupy the virtual space that extremists fill, one thread or Twitter exchange at a time. Shahed Amanullah, a senior technology adviser to the State Department and Viral Peace's creator, tells Danger Room he wants to use "logic, humor, satire, [and] religious arguments, not just to confront [extremists], but to undermine and demoralize them." Think of it as strategic trolling, in pursuit of geopolitical pwnage.' So, does this mean that I'm promoting peace when I post YouTube comments?"
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Trolling Al Qaeda... For Peace?

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  • Re:Right (Score:2, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @06:23PM (#40691459)

    If you dispute this, it's because YOU have already been trolled into disinformed confusion...

    Regardless of what their position is, anyone who says this is more confused and misinformed than the people he's accusing of the same.

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