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#Russia, #China, probably #SaudiaArabia, and now #India and #Pakistan?

via #PhilosophyNow

"*Is Election Meddling an Act of War?*"

"The fundamental purpose of election meddling is to substitute, to the greatest extent possible, the leadership preference of a foreign power for that of a sovereign people. 👉Hardly anything could be more dangerous to the practice and...

https://philosophynow.org/issues/144/Is_Election_Meddling_an_Act_of_War

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...ideals of democracy.👈"

*#ElectionMeddling does constitute an #ActOfWar:*

TRADITIONAL SCHOOL, #MichaelWalzer (1977), casus belli: "...every violation of the territorial integrity or political #sovereignty of an independent state” constitutes an act of aggression. For #Walzer, states have fundamental sovereignty rights, owing to which 👉any harm done to the state’s #sovereignty justifies the use of force.👈"

The...

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...REVISIONIST SCHOOL concurs for massive cases, #JeffMcMahan (2009):
"...if foreign election meddling significantly undermines the political rights of enough citizens, 👉the violated state might be justified in resorting to violence in order to redress the harm its people have suffered👈, and reestablish the integrity of their political institutions.

Other revisionists concur."

I have been...

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...arguing for quite some time, that the 24/7 #Cyberwarfare (by not only #Russia) became an ongoing #HybridWar when #Russia began the #EnergyWars--even if it had not invaded #Ukraine in 2014 and in 2022. The #EnergyWars have resulted in a global #TradeWar, where many, if not all, nations participate.

*My CURRENT, developing stance is the following:*

For one thing,...

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...the #media, including #SocialMedia, must be made more resilient. Despite the rancid taste of anti-competitive lobbying by #BigTech, forcing a sale of #TikTok is a step in the right direction. ANY foreign media ownership should be scrutinized, in particular, if the owner(s) are not sole citizens of a country that belongs to #NATO (potentially problematic: #Hungary, #Turkey, previously #Poland,...

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...etc. -》 #FreedomOfThePress!)

Another step is severely beefed-up policing of political content. Although I'm critical of its use, #AI could, in this case, be used to pre-screen all #SM content. "Problematic" contents and accounts (tbd) would be evaluated by a likewise beefed-up #CyberPolice force, to be either forwarded to the prosecution or to the #CyberWarfare command/ #CyberIntelligence agents or discarded.
I...

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...am, as yet, undecided regarding the potential threat of a surveillance state, as in #China, #NorthKorea, or #Russia, but things cannot continue as they are. The really stolen (from #HillaryClinton) #Election2016 in the #US should be a definite call for action.
However, ending end-to-end #encryption (#E2E) is certainly taking it way too far. There must be a society left worth fighting for.

tbc

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