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Chapter 244 CIA’s Five Cents

"Hello, Miss Edson."

Two CIA agents were waiting for her in the living room.

After returning to California from New York, Catherine immediately came to the company, and by this time, two CIA agents had been waiting here for a long time.

"Miss Edson, our CIA has encountered a very serious problem, and only you can help us with this problem," Snake said.

"It's about some speech control matters. We found that someone is blatantly promoting the Soviet democratic policy on your Internet. The speech is very poisonous, which is very detrimental to us." Badua added.

Promote democracy in the free world?

Don't want to live anymore?

Catherine is a little strange.

Could it be a Soviet spy?

In today's United States, democracy is actually a very sensitive word.

You should know that the full names of many socialist countries are in the format of "xx democratic country xx".

This was true for East Germany, and so was North Korea.

How does the socialist camp propagandize now?

Catherine suddenly thought of the propaganda poster she had seen in Hong Kong - "Long live peace, democracy, and unity of the socialist camp."

Of course, the so-called "democracy" has different meanings.

It's like the United States promotes freedom to the outside world, but if someone openly promotes liberalism, the FBI will most likely have this person commit suicide.

Both freedom and liberal have the meaning of freedom, but there is a difference between the two meanings.

Otherwise, when it comes to democracy, people cry out to fight and kill, and the Democratic Party will be embarrassed.

Sometimes Catherine really couldn't figure out how the Internet could attract the attention of the CIA now that it was just a small platform.

After a while, Catherine thought of the reason - for now, her Internet is only targeting college students.

American college students train elite talents. If these people are bewitched, it will be very detrimental to the United States. No wonder the CIA will come to find it.

"Every citizen is free and we have no right to interfere with their freedom of speech."

It's nice to use liberal values ​​against democratic values.

"But this kind of speech on the Internet is very harmful to our free world," Badua said.

"Not only that, if someone uses the Internet as a tool to hold gatherings, we have no way to stop it..."

"The Internet is a real-name system." Catherine reminded.

"Yes, but we can't be sure whether there are some mental patients or Soviet spies here." The CIA is obviously very sensitive to information from the KGB. "The spies may steal some people's personal information.

information, and then use this information to create trouble on the Internet.”

"But aren't sas monitoring the Internet?"

Catherine asked.

"Ahem..." Badua coughed lightly: "All investigations and evidence collection by our CIA are obtained through legal means... Well, I think you also know that most users on the Internet are college students.

, they are the future of the United States, and they happen to be in a rebellious stage now. If they encounter someone, some unforeseen situations may occur. The federal government has always attached great importance to students.

"

It seems like they really thought everything through.

"No wonder Britain declined while the United States grew stronger."

"What?"

"No...it's nothing. But I still insist that we should maintain the freedom of students."

Catherine can't say that a large-scale sāoluàn broke out in Britain in the future, and the reason for sāoluàn was because students were too bored during the summer vacation...

"I wonder if you have been online recently?" Snake asked.

"I've been very busy recently."

The current Internet cannot interest Catherine.

"A few months ago, the voice of this kind of guhuoxing on the Internet was still very small, but recently, more and more people are talking about this matter - especially the ** movement that China is engaging in

, many people now claim to be Red Guards. In short, the current Internet is a mess. The FBI gave us this job, but we can't possibly deal with all these students... cough cough

.”

Snake seemed to realize that he had said something wrong.

"oh?"

Catherine actually didn't know that was the case.

How could someone actually bring out Taizu's thoughts, which are the only ones that can compete with universal values?

It's really interesting.

The United States really started to talk seriously about democracy during the civil rights movement—and now, it happens to be the peak of the civil rights movement.

The CIA is obviously worried that people are being fooled by the so-called "democracy".

To say that this concept of democracy can really be promoted, it only became popular during the Carter period.

But Catherine soon realized that this seemed to be a bit troublesome.

Catherine didn't want her Internet to be shut down by the federal government for promoting so-called democracy. At that time, she wouldn't even have time to cry.

It's just that Catherine doesn't want to take care of it herself, so if she wants to solve this matter, she hopes to leave it to the CIA in front of her.

"...Maybe you can take another approach?"

"What?"

Catherine replied: "I mean, maybe you can use legal and reasonable means instead of illegal means. The Internet services provided by our company are for the benefit of all Americans."

What you say is better than what you sing.

"But without your help, what we have to do will be very difficult."

Catherine suddenly thought of something.

"I have an idea that might work."

"Please say."

"I think you can completely manipulate the content on the Internet through legal and reasonable means, just like newspapers and TV."

Catherine expressed her opinion.

Badua was a little confused, so he tried to ask: "Gunner?"

"Uh...this..."

It can't be called five cents, right?

"I think that although such an organization is legal, if it is exposed to the outside world, it will be very detrimental to the image of the federal government. How about giving it a code name?"

"Indeed, but what should we call it?"

"What about temporary workers? If something goes wrong, just blame the temporary workers."

Both Badua and Snake's eyes lit up. This was indeed a good idea.

Snake asked: "Can you tell us more about this plan?"

"Uh... let me think about it."

Catherine sorted out the thoughts in her mind, and then said: "We can do this: first hire a group of people, and then let this group of people post comments on the Internet to promote our free thoughts, so as to fight against the Soviet Union

Confrontation, such as in forums and chat rooms. In order to keep these employees motivated, we can give them five cents for each post, and for every ten sentences of our free thoughts they promote in the chat room, we also give them five cents.

.”

Snake wondered: "Is five cents too much?"

"Then one cent per post."

And Badua is also a little worried: "But will those Soviet spies do the same thing as us?"

Catherine was stunned, this was indeed a problem.

"It's not difficult to solve this matter. You can let these temporary workers promote the democratic values ​​of the Soviet Union."

The two CIA agents were stunned.

Catherine then said unhurriedly: "You can definitely hire a group of people to write some posts praising the Soviet system and publish some remarks about this. In this case, our 'freedom' can also be

The Soviets have nothing to say.”

Badua looked at Catherine strangely: "You mean...we want to help the Soviet Union promote their system?"

Isn’t this proposal too incredible?

"No, on the contrary, our method is precisely to prevent these Soviet spies from talking about the Internet, and even to draw some people who originally like the Soviet Union into our free world."

The two of them couldn't understand.

"We can get these people to spread some 'truth' about the Soviet Union..."

Halfway through Catherine's words, she suddenly realized that she really didn't understand the Soviet Union...

"Let me give you an example. If Moscow is a place where kidnappings occur frequently and is called the 'kidnapping capital of the world', we can definitely carry out a series of operations to deal with this matter."

“Are kidnappings frequent in Moscow?”

"I said, it's just an analogy. If, just if." Catherine repeated it, and then continued: "Our temporary workers can completely publicize such a news to others, every city in the world has

There is a kidnapping incident, and then they are allowed to use the most vicious and offensive language to slander the reputation of the United States."

Badua seemed to understand a little now: "In other words, through these means, the people's antipathy towards the Soviet Union was aroused?"

Catherine nodded heavily: "That's it. We just want them to say something that will please their loved ones and their enemies. It is best to let them slander the United States to nothing, and say that the Soviet Union is better than heaven.

Be as exaggerated as possible, the more exaggerated the better... Oh, by the way, the style must be lyrical, in this case, the effect should be better."

The two people nodded seriously.

"But we have no way to make an independent decision on this matter. We can only report this matter to our superiors. But I am personally very optimistic about this plan." Snake seemed to be very interested in this.

"Oh, that's totally fine."

As long as it's none of your own business.

After seeing off the two CIA agents, Catherine finally breathed a sigh of relief, then turned around and continued to complete her "The Matrix".

Not long after, a plan code-named "Five Cents" was drawn up at the CIA's headquarters. This was a great plan with far-reaching consequences.

After that, in the UK, a "Ten Pence" plan formulated by MI6 was also released. This was also a decision that affected the future...