Hypothesis: corporate interests are creating large-scale spy networks
- Hypothesis: Corporations are actively cultivating large-scale spy networks to be used against everyday people. They are particularly interested in infiltrating campuses and protest movements.
- Players/Incentives: Particularly the Koch Brothers, but other interests are also likely to be involved.
- Estimated likelihood: 95%; this has been reported on by The Guardian [2017 article linked below].
- Third party evidence/Arguments:
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/12/inside-the-secret-world-of-the-corporate-spies-who-infiltrate-protests
- https://truthout.org/articles/right-wing-orgs-are-enlisting-students-in-their-war-against-campus-progressives/
- https://truthout.org/articles/campus-reform-is-funneling-koch-money-to-groom-right-wing-journalists/
Relevant quotes:
> [The Guardian] They shine a rare light on a habitually secretive industry in which large firms hire covert operatives to monitor and infiltrate political groups that object to their commercial activities. At a premium is advance information, tipping off the firms about protests that are being organised against them.
> [Truthout] The highly coordinated attacks, she says, have been orchestrated by an 11-year-old group called Campus Reform that trains conservative students to monitor, surveil and report on the speech and actions of left-leaning professors, students and campus activist groups for the organization’s daily blog.
> [Truthout] Blackwell’s vision is expansive and he has worked to foster organizational networking to link right-wing student organizations — and young minds — to the broader and more well-established conservative movement: The Heritage Foundation, The American Enterprise Institute, Americans for Prosperity, FreedomWorks, The Club for Growth, The Reason Foundation and the State Policy Network. But Blackwell has also gone further, noting that these connections would not matter unless money was ponied up to back the students’ work.
> [Truthout] This support has enabled Campus Reform to train students to monitor and report on progressive campus activism and establish conservative organizations to counter the purported left-wing biases they claim are evident at every college and university in the country. The group also places affiliated students on a fast-track to jobs at conservative think tanks; media outlets including Breitbart, The Daily Caller and Fox News; and with local, state and federal lawmakers once they graduate.
> [The Guardian] The leaked documents suggest that corporate security firms frequently run espionage operations to gather information on protesters, including infiltrating private meetings and obtaining internal documents.
> However, they are subject to little or no regulation. This has attracted criticism from police, who have in the past called the deployment of corporate spies “completely uncontrolled and unrestrained”.
> Since 1968, the police have sent more than 140 undercover officers to spy on over 1,000 political groups. However, senior officers have claimed that there have been more corporate spies embedded in protest groups than police officers.
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