Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Thoughts about Las Vegas and kinetically striking disinformation actors" video.

  1. They’re not targeting the farmers, they’re targeting the farm. If you’re working in the building that day, it sucks to be you. The blurry line is between international networks of activists and state sponsored farms. Or what about offshore contractors? If I were red teaming Ryan, there’s some pretty obvious responses. 1) Work from home 2) put your troll farm/active measures facility in a third country 3) put it in the target country Number 1 changes the math of collateral and unwanted damage. It introduces a lot more potential for blowback. Number 2 presents a diplomatic problem. If Russia puts its troll farms in China or India, the diplomatic consequences outweigh the intended result. And what if Russia is not operating the troll farms but is contracting the work to a third party? Number 3 presents a different set of problems. Maybe Russia contracts with a viral marketing firm operating out of Florida. There no way you can target them kinetically, and you’d have trouble shutting them down legally. Depending on how stacked the Supreme Court remains, you probably won’t be able to shut them down. Trolling and misinformation can still be considered protected speech. As far as targeting individuals (which Ryan is not talking about), I have a solution. It’s called “rendition”. In this scenario, Team Ryan kidnaps the individual, spirits them to Guantanamo, and a tribunal decides their guilt or innocence. 😂
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  2. Fly in, take the bus out. 😂
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  3. Instead of kinetic strikes on facilities (which is easily solved by dispersal/working from home), how about extraordinary renditions? 😅 Nab the active measures middle managers, spirit them to Guantanamo, and let a tribunal sort it out, after they spend five years figuring out the legal framework and legal justifications for prosecuting enemy cyber warriors. I’ll argue that compared to what China and Russia already do in the west, kidnapping is not escalatory, whereas kinetic strikes definitely would be. 😊 This whole topic you’re getting into is very interesting. You present a pretty clear cut case wrt these videos, but I’m sure you’re aware of all the caveats that keep it from being as simple as how you’re presenting the question. Have you checked out the website/channel Lawfare? I’m pretty sure they’ve weighed the legal and policy aspects of this. You should look over their material and maybe talk to them.
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