the people talking about violence are almost exclusively gamer kids

^ This

and the violence is fantasy

and it is ridiculous

but

if you did sentiment analysis to determine whether the government has any credibility left

I doubt they would be pleased with the results

the media, certainly, has no credibility

Psycho-stylometric linguistic analysis is more accurate than algorthmic sentiment analysis, but it takes human to perform that type of analytical process.

you can run the algos across all the logs discord gives you

ibm watson has a nice api for that

My company has an Azure Government Account, but folks in my department rarely use algos. Most of our algo use is simply human assistance rather than human replacement.

that sounds expensive

Such as using an algo to run through tens of thousands of pages in a short time, but the data pulled from that run is analyzed by humans.

No, just takes smart people who are willing to work hard.

it would be cheaper, for example, to set up a vpn company on DOD ip space
and use it as a honey pot
to narrow down the target pool

"Willing to work hard" is a rather tall order in 2018.

PIA could assist with that vpn thing 😉

We use a number of VPN providers depending on the application.

PIA is one of them.

indeed

and the old DOD registrations are still there, for anyone smart enough to look

but that particular operation has some weak links

which is why I know this

i should apply to every government sector

But I specialize in content analysis, so I don't need to set up any honeypots. I just go where the various subjects are already ranting and spreading word-garbage online and use that. It's cheaper.

so tumblr?

Reddit is a gold mine.

discord

Tumblr too.

Discord, Telegram, Jabber, I could go on and on, but it would be nothing more than digital ambien for most folks.

I suppose you would need a list of active operatives - so you know who to ignore
that would be a great list to have

We have a number of "whitelists" that we go by. Including a rather extensive whitelist for this platform and youtube as well. Tim is most certainly "whitelisted" otherwise I wouldn't even be here.

Tim seems legit

he's a genuine, normal person

There are a large number of people who are smeared by legacy media as "far-right reactionaries" and "agents of online radicalization" that neither my company, nor it's clients, think of in any way similarly.

Tim is great. I've followed Tim since 2011.

Occupy.

that was quite a show

Shitshow, maybe.

it did not seem to me that occupy had any genuine plan beyond protest