zersetzung

I had never heard of Zersetzung before and the link is very interesting.

A large portion of the population became informants and participated in the forms of Zersetzung against the states defined target.

The term Zersetzung is more often used as meaning a biological process of degradation.

I was strangely fascinated by Zersetzung - as I understand it, one of the main objectives was to supply other people with evidence against your own sanity.

Bulk data collection of radio-frequency data is either freely available (wigle) or has a very low buyin which allows granular historic tracking for everyone in a geographic region, and there are groups that know about this, and use this towards Zersetzung style gang-stalking (criminal harassment).

Stasi's Zersetzung: "The Stasi perfected the technique of psychological harassment of perceived enemies known as Zersetzung.

Methodologically Stasi is more similar to the current BND: The focus was on gathering intelligence, infiltrating dissident groups and "Zersetzung" of dissident individuals.

While I see the potential for "Zersetzung", it just doesn't scale as well as mass surveillance.

The Stasi has done the exact same thing, it's called "Zersetzung".

East Germany had a strategy for dealing with political opponents it referred to as Zersetzung.

Or maybe, given how those sites visibly disappear, it is an example of Zersetzung[0]?.

Zersetzung was designed to side-track and "switch off" perceived enemies so that they would lose the will to continue any "inappropriate" activities.

Stasi's Zersetzung: "The Stasi perfected the technique of psychological harassment of perceived enemies known as Zersetzung.

Methodologically Stasi is more similar to the current BND: The focus was on gathering intelligence, infiltrating dissident groups and "Zersetzung" of dissident individuals.

While I see the potential for "Zersetzung", it just doesn't scale as well as mass surveillance.

The Stasi has done the exact same thing, it's called "Zersetzung".

East Germany had a strategy for dealing with political opponents it referred to as Zersetzung.

Or maybe, given how those sites visibly disappear, it is an example of Zersetzung[0]?.

Zersetzung sounds incredibly frightening and you're 100% correct that that's the direction we're going.