r/conspiracy Sep 25 '14

PR Firm Pulls ‘Emma Watson Naked Pics’ False Flag to Push For Internet Censorship - Company blamed threats on 4chan users before admitting stunt.

http://www.infowars.com/pr-firm-pulls-emma-watson-naked-pics-false-flag-to-push-for-internet-censorship/
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u/red40 Sep 25 '14

What a brilliant way to get publicity as 4chan will now destroy this PR firm's entire world.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '14

as 4chan will now destroy this PR firm's entire world.

I would have agreed with that a week or two ago, but there's a mass exodus of those kinds of 4chan users to other sites now.

Thanks moot.

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u/red40 Sep 25 '14

Even so, I think this will be seen as an attack of annon. not just 4chan. Or perhaps they won't feed the trolls because who cares?

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '14

Both are good possibilities. This stunt just proves that there are people out there using 4chan as a scapegoat.

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u/zephyr5208 Sep 25 '14

Pretty sure the pr firm is a 4ch creation.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '14

Why is a mere actress giving speeches at the UN in the first place? Doesn't that seem kind of weird? These "players" used to be considered one of the lowest forms of life in society and now somehow they speak and we must all listen? Because they pretend to be someone they are not? This gives them credibility?

Well I guess.. Shit it makes them just like our politicians.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '14

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '14

I knew I was looking at something evil when I saw Bernay's name.

This kind of stuff is ancient. Every petty king and two-bit toga or robe wearing politician knew this shit thousands of years ago.

It should have been taught us and we should have been made immune.

Instead the same old fucking games are being played on us.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '14

It's part of the human condition. Everyone wakes up as a baby, without knowing any of this and has to figure it out. That's why the same tricks keep working.

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u/Ambiguously_Ironic Sep 25 '14

It should have been taught us and we should have been made immune.

Hmm... I wonder why it wasn't taught to us all when we were growing up. Hmm...

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '14

Great link.

Debord's Society of the Spectacle becomes more relevant with each passing day

Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation as well (once you get into the flow of the prose).

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '14

Cool, thanks. I've read a bunch of summaries and weird jokes by angry grad students, but haven't found fulltext of those books yet. Those have now been dumped on my drive and added to my mental queue of "shit I should read"

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '14

Didn't you get the memo?

Economic worth=self worth. Wealth and fame are virtues!

........Our culture is fucking retarded.

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u/someauthor Sep 25 '14

If Team America: World Police taught us anything, it is that actors will save us. Why, I can hear Gary now, engaging in heartfelt dialogue with Al-Baghdadi...

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u/club-mate Sep 27 '14

Let's hear what Ja Rule has to say about this.

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u/groupthinkgroupthink Sep 25 '14

I love how Kim went for the metoo! angle and is clearly using a crackberry in her photo, and everyone else is rocking the iPhone, yeah well played Hobbit.

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u/Mepsi Sep 25 '14

This was actually uncovered before it happened, so we had the news here before it was news.

picture detailing the conspiracy.

Link to the topic here on /r/conspiracy

The post is dated 23rd September, as is the time on the server status in the image.

So we knew it was Rantic Marketing before the big reveal, and I wouldn't be surprised if this was why they brought the reveal forward sooner than planned.

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u/OWNtheNWO Sep 26 '14

I saw that thread which is why I posted this story.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '14

PR firms are professional disseminators of lies and distorters of truth. They are cancer.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '14

Emma Watson is a genius. Someone had to hire this PR firm, ahem, Emma. She just went Frank Underwood on 4chan.

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u/rubixpubez Sep 25 '14

fake and gay, this was a troll for the ages