A brainstorming session in the Condition Department s new Viral Peace initiative, which seeks to troll online would-be terrorists, Kl, Malaysia, April 30. Photo: Humera Khan
Within the decade since 9/11, the U.S. government has utilized a multitude of tactics against terrorists. This is penetrated nations where they operated (and ones where they didn t). This is attempted to win the backing of foreign populations where the terrorists hide. Also it s sent commando and deadly flying robots to kill them 1 by 1.
One factor it hasn t done, so far: troll them.
Inside the Condition Department, a Plastic Valley veteran has silently released an improbable new initiative to bother, frustrate and humiliate denizens of online extremist forums. This is so new it hasn t fully taken shape: Even its designers concede it hasn t fleshed out a real strategy yet, and accordingly can t indicate any improvements this is produced. Its annual finances are a rounding error. The Government will expend more in Afghanistan within the time that it goes to complete reading through this sentence.
It signifies, within the mind of their creator, an opportunity to discourage impressionable youth from becoming terrorists all within an idiom they firmly understand. And when it really works, it could stand an opportunity of reducing al-Qaida s capability to replenish its ranks at any given time if this looks to become spinning.
This program, known as Viral Peace, seeks to occupy the virtual space that extremists fill, one thread or Twitter exchange at any given time. Shahed Amanullah, a senior technology agent towards the Condition Department and Viral Peace s creator, informs Danger Room he really wants to use logic, humor, satire, [and] religious arguments, not just in confront [extremists], but to undermine and demoralize them. Think about it as being proper trolling, in search of geopolitical pwnage.
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