Commodus
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What irks me is that many on the right treat the hacked data as a sort of "get out of election influence concerns free" card.
Is it authentic data? Sure. Does that excuse how and why the data was obtained? Absolutely not. Foreign governments shouldn't have free rein to steal information in a bid to skew the vote. Not only that, but the spin on the information made it sound like there was more to it than there was. There were certainly legit complaints (that the DNC clearly favored Clinton, for example), but they get drowned out by attempts to make scandals out of everything -- witness the people who seriously thought "spirit cooking" was a sign of something nefarious.
The sad part was watching conservatives enthusiastically share leak 'revelations' from RT or Sputnik... you know, news outlets backed by the Russian government. Putin and crew drip-fed propaganda, and people not critical enough to question the sources of that information just lapped it up.
Is it authentic data? Sure. Does that excuse how and why the data was obtained? Absolutely not. Foreign governments shouldn't have free rein to steal information in a bid to skew the vote. Not only that, but the spin on the information made it sound like there was more to it than there was. There were certainly legit complaints (that the DNC clearly favored Clinton, for example), but they get drowned out by attempts to make scandals out of everything -- witness the people who seriously thought "spirit cooking" was a sign of something nefarious.
The sad part was watching conservatives enthusiastically share leak 'revelations' from RT or Sputnik... you know, news outlets backed by the Russian government. Putin and crew drip-fed propaganda, and people not critical enough to question the sources of that information just lapped it up.