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daeken on June 6, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: China paper warns Google may pay price for hacking...

> We "the west" don't have an explicit "Propaganda department" like communist countries generally do. But our media, and government still use propaganda to control peoples opinions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Influence

Volpe on June 6, 2011 [–]

Wow, I stand corrected.

Not quite the same as China's Propaganda Department, which vetts all media (great firewall is under it's control).

Wow.

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