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I'll go through the reading material and give feedback when I'm done.

>making accounts and "infiltrating". (I have more to say about this, I don't know if I have dumped the links at you.)
Those links sound interesting.

>but this time we are the USSR
I recently read "Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More" which is about the social conditions during the last decades of the USSR and the behavior of the average people reminded me a lot of what we are dealing with today. His main point was that the latest Soviet system had succeeded, no matter its shortcomings, to convince the greater mass of people that they were on the side of good(tm) while even the dissidents believed that the system would go on forever.

>It's intelligence agencies and their projects.
It is. Still, you need to at least subvert a site's administration and/or moderation in order to get to the level we are seeing now. And it is everywhere, meaning that a very big part of the population has concluded that this constant degeneration of online interactions is in their best interests, which could be interpreted as the long term result of this intelligence services and political grifting.

>but Japanese discussions are free of this kind of thing.
Can you recommend some websites? I do agree that at a personal and irl group level the Japanese can still deal better with this kind of thing, but during my research a couple of years ago I found online Japanese discussions to be extensively Westernized. The main website I browsed was 2channel, the one where you need a Japanese ip to view.