Trolling ISIS

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Trolling ISIS

By Aki Peritz at Slate

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2015/08/how_to_undermine_isis_with_one_simple_trick_target_the_jihadist_recruiters.html

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Since many ISIS wannabes interact with charismatic online middlemen—even just to discuss the logistics of getting to Syria—the governments of the world could overwhelm ISIS’s recruiting system by creating hundreds of fake ISIS-curious individuals to interact with recruiters.


For starters, one can safely assume that ISIS has a finite number of possible recruiters who are successful at their craft. An ISIS fighter who only speaks Arabic, for instance, will not be able to persuade an English-speaker in the United States, especially over a period of weeks or months. And even if a person has the requisite language skills, it doesn’t mean he has the sophistication to convince someone to journey to Syria to fight and die for Islamist marauders.


Thus, wasting their time and scamming them for cash is a good first step to imposing a high price on recruiters’ activities—at a low cost. The recruiters are, after all, human, and thus may not have the necessary mental bandwidth to deal with dozens of fakes. And just like there’s an online community that scams Nigerian scam artists, there would be a large group of private citizens willing to confuse and harass ISIS recruiters in their spare time.


That’s Step 1. Step 2 is for the government to collect enough intelligence on these top recruiters to create profiles for targeting purposes. The best recruiters are crafty and sophisticated enough to not give away too much personal data on the Internet. However, enough information, combined with intelligence and law enforcement data, can eventually be combined to block their activities or arrest them if they live in the West or other friendly countries. And if they’re in Syria, perhaps enough intelligence can be gathered to put them out of business using more deadly means.



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1. Hopefully we are already doing this in a big way. Very cost effective also.

Buy one less fucking F-35 and hire an army of trolls...

Might keep a few from bothering us here on DU!!!