http://www.politico.com/news/m...ganda-unused-00020805
>>The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) was created in the 1930s to counter Nazi propaganda by requiring distributors in the U.S. to disclose the nature of the source. Pamphlets and magazines sent from hostile foreign governments were required to be labeled, such as with a stamp added by the distributor indicating that the organization behind the propaganda was a registered foreign agent. In introducing the law in 1937, Rep. John McCormack explained this would ensure Americans knew Nazi propaganda when they saw it: "The passage of this bill will label such propaganda just as the law requires us to label poison." The House Judiciary Committee report on the proposed law said, "The spotlight of pitiless publicity will serve as a deterrent to the spread of pernicious propaganda."

The U.S. continued to enforce the labeling requirement through the Cold War. Magazines such as Soviet Life came with warnings stamped on them by distributors alerting readers that the publisher was an agent of Moscow.

Russian disinformation websites were required to register with the Justice Department under FARA during the Trump administration, but the attorneys general under several presidents have failed to update the law's labeling requirements for the internet. (FARA gives the attorney general discretion to update how FARA's broad rules are applied.) The modern equivalent of a stamp in every copy of a pamphlet paid for by the Nazi or Soviet government would be a detailed disclosure included in every article or video from the Kremlin that appeared in anyone's social media feed or search result.


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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

We realy should expand this to include prog propaganda, which is far more damaging to the country than anything Russia coujld come up with. Thus, need to slap a warning label on most newspapers, all network news shows, certain cable news shows, and the like.

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I :heart; Q

The label would be on every single piece of garbage you post.


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QOP = Terrorists
FK = Gay

We might actually find out who pays fox.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.