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| NP wrote: | | real-human wrote: | | NP wrote: | | NP wrote: | | real-human wrote: | note it was reported there was a right wing paid troll posting even on Iwindsurf . again a paid troll by right wing concerns.
why would they pay someone to post their propaganda here.
is it free speech or is it paid speech when paid to post here. Should paid speech always notify that they are attack dogs. |
So again, who is / was the paid troll posting here?
Who reported there was a right wing paid troll here?
Why would they pay someone to post propaganda here? |
So what you're saying is you don't know who is paid troll.
You don't know who said there was a right wing paid troll, and there's no logical reason that someone would pay someone to shill / troll the political forum of an obscure niche sport wind information website. OK, got it. |
One thing for sure, we know that low level thinkers without sugar daddys will never be paid for their thinking...... |
Is there a line up outside your door of people willing to pay for your paranoid thinking?
So again, who is this paid troll, and who said there was a paid troll? Why would anyone waste their money on a "paid troll / shill" on a windsurfing sub sub sub forum? You're the one who asked that question previously. |
I guess it is past your pay grade/education level even the first post... no one lining up to your door step for your trumpism hate.
exactly why do you post here, you certainly do not add any semblance of intellect do ya? ya your hate is well documented... your trolling, harassment, stalking... those are certainly admired traits of the right wing exemplified by trump.
so you will never post here if I note the person who outed one of yours...
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| real-human wrote: | | NP wrote: | | real-human wrote: | | NP wrote: | | NP wrote: | | real-human wrote: | note it was reported there was a right wing paid troll posting even on Iwindsurf . again a paid troll by right wing concerns.
why would they pay someone to post their propaganda here.
is it free speech or is it paid speech when paid to post here. Should paid speech always notify that they are attack dogs. |
So again, who is / was the paid troll posting here?
Who reported there was a right wing paid troll here?
Why would they pay someone to post propaganda here? |
So what you're saying is you don't know who is paid troll.
You don't know who said there was a right wing paid troll, and there's no logical reason that someone would pay someone to shill / troll the political forum of an obscure niche sport wind information website. OK, got it. |
One thing for sure, we know that low level thinkers without sugar daddys will never be paid for their thinking...... |
Is there a line up outside your door of people willing to pay for your paranoid thinking?
So again, who is this paid troll, and who said there was a paid troll? Why would anyone waste their money on a "paid troll / shill" on a windsurfing sub sub sub forum? You're the one who asked that question previously. |
I guess it is past your pay grade/education level even the first post... no one lining up to your door step for your trumpism hate.
exactly why do you post here, you certainly do not add any semblance of intellect do ya? ya your hate is well documented... your trolling, harassment, stalking... those are certainly admired traits of the right wing exemplified by trump.
so you will never post here if I note the person who outed one of yours... |
Yup, past my pay grade.
So who was the paid troll / shill? A name / handle will suffice.
Who was it who reported there was a a "right wing paid troll"? Is the amnesia crowd those who do not back your claim?
Why would they pay someone to post their propaganda here (an obscure wind information website sub forum of a niche sport)?
You claim that you beat the ---- out of everyone with your facts, so let us see these facts that you make claim to. |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 9:12 am Post subject: Re: Who pays for trolls? |
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| real-human wrote: | do we have free speech or is it paid speech?
https://occupycorporatism.com/cia-sponsored-trolls-monitor-social-media-interact-with-users-to-discredit-factual-information/
| Quote: | According to Lynnae Williams, former CIA clandestine service trainee and DIA analyst, the FBI and CIA use trolls to monitor social media and interact with users to discredit information disseminated on the web. Williams explains that the CIA provides training videos to new recruits on how to troll the internet. Once a target is locked-in, all open source information is obtained on the individual, and then any angle to discredit them in public forum is used on social media sites.
Software is used to sift through the “mountains” of users on social networking sites. At the Atlanta CIA branch where Williams was trained, she personally witnessed CIA-sponsored and sanctioned trolling of Americans on social networking sites.
In 2011, the CIA revealed its Open Source Center where recruited personnel are used as government trolls to “analyze” websites for information pertinent to the objective of the US government – meaning discrediting targets on certain websites.
Under the guise of conducting business intelligence (i.e. cyberespionage), the Open Source software gathers digital data on targets; including all Facebook posts, Twitter posts, comments on website threads. Those assigned to monitor this data can interact with users online through anonymous portals. Agents are designated to surveillance operations to message anyone, analyze political and religious speech, assess trends and conduct electronic eavesdropping through cell phones, satellites and other digital apparatus. |
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/20/fox-news-reportedly-used-fake-commenter-account/196509
Fox News Reportedly Used Fake Commenter Accounts To Rebut Critical Blog Posts
New Book Details An Extensive Campaign By The Networks' PR Staffers
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/10/fox-news-unleashes-horde-sock-puppets-unsuspecting-blogosphere
| Quote: | Every once in a while I get an email from a regular reader insisting that the troll infestation in the comment section is so bad that it can't possibly be organic. Some of these guys have to be paid professionals who are executing a deliberate strategy. I've always poo-poohed this, but maybe I shouldn't have. Via Media Matters, here's an excerpt from David Folkenflik's forthcoming book Murdoch's World, about the Fox PR department's systematic effort to counter anti-Fox criticism:
On the blogs, the fight was particularly fierce. Fox PR staffers were expected to counter not just negative and even neutral blog postings but the anti-Fox comments beneath them. One former staffer recalled using twenty different aliases to post pro-Fox rants. Another had one hundred. Several employees had to acquire a cell phone thumb drive to provide a wireless broadband connection that could not be traced back to a Fox News or News Corp account. Another used an AOL dial-up connection, even in the age of widespread broadband access, on the rationale it would be harder to pinpoint its origins. Old laptops were distributed for these cyber operations. Even blogs with minor followings were reviewed to ensure no claim went unchecked. |
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2009/08/astroturf-trolls-for-the-blogosphere.html
| Quote: | "Astro-Turf Trolls for the Blogosphere"
Great. Organized, paid blog trolls:
Make no mistake: GOP is paying trolls to "blog attack", by Politics and Technology: This is unbelievable. We always knew that there were right-wing political hacks trolling the blogosphere, but this is a new low.
There's a company called Advantage Consultants that's offering up "professional blog warriors" to "flood the zone" with comments. In short, astro-turf trolls for the blogosphere.
Click to zoom on their ad..., but here's the text:
Are you ready for a blog attack?
Get ahead of your opponent with Professional Blog Warriors.
Be prepared to "flood the zone" with comments from professionals who are ready to put your talking points on the blogosphere 24/7.
Whether it's defense or offense, Advantage Consultants has a dedicated team of experienced blog warriors ready to advance your candidate or campaign.
Why wait for the attack? Launch your attack with a battery of blog and forum comments aimed at all media and blog sites in your district.
Contact us today and let us show you the Advantage in professional blog warfare.
...Incidentally, who are these people? Who is Advantage Consultants? Their president is Doug Guetzloe, a right-wing radio host and anti-tax activist in Florida.
The marketplace of ideas is far from ideal. This goes on in a variety of different formats, people are paid to call into radio shows, to write letters to the editor at local papers, to attend public meetings, if there's a public forum on an important issue you can bet someone, somewhere is doing their best to figure out how to manipulate the discussion in their favor. This is just the extension of an old technique to a new format (e.g. here's the same consulting group explaining how to manipulate talk radio).
But the basic dishonesty of it all bugs me. |
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/dec/13/astroturf-libertarians-internet-democracy
These astroturf libertarians are the real threat to internet democracy
George Monbiot
| Quote: | I first came across online astroturfing in 2002, when the investigators Andy Rowell and Jonathan Matthews looked into a series of comments made by two people calling themselves Mary Murphy and Andura Smetacek. They had launched ferocious attacks, across several internet forums, against a scientist whose research suggested that Mexican corn had been widely contaminated by GM pollen.
Rowell and Matthews found that one of the messages Mary Murphy had sent came from a domain owned by the Bivings Group, a PR company specialising in internet lobbying. An article on the Bivings website explained that "there are some campaigns where it would be undesirable or even disastrous to let the audience know that your organisation is directly involved … Message boards, chat rooms, and listservs are a great way to anonymously monitor what is being said. Once you are plugged into this world, it is possible to make postings to these outlets that present your position as an uninvolved third party."
The Bivings site also quoted a senior executive from the biotech corporation Monsanto, thanking the PR firm for its "outstanding work". When a Bivings executive was challenged by Newsnight, he admitted that the "Mary Murphy" email was sent by someone "working for Bivings" or "clients using our services". Rowell and Matthews then discovered that the IP address on Andura Smetacek's messages was assigned to Monsanto's headquarters in St Louis, Missouri. There's a nice twist to this story. AstroTurf TM – real fake grass – was developed and patented by Monsanto. |
| Quote: | For his film (Astro)Turf Wars, Taki Oldham secretly recorded a training session organised by a rightwing libertarian group called American Majority. The trainer, Austin James, was instructing Tea Party members on how to "manipulate the medium". This is what he told them: "Here's what I do. I get on Amazon; I type in 'Liberal books'. I go through and I say 'one star, one star, one star'. The flipside is you go to a conservative/ libertarian whatever, go to their products and give them five stars … This is where your kids get information: Rotten Tomatoes, Flixster. These are places where you can rate movies. So when you type in 'Movies on healthcare', I don't want Michael Moore's to come up, so I always give it bad ratings. I spend about 30 minutes a day, just click, click, click, click … If there's a place to comment, a place to rate, a place to share information, you have to do it. That's how you control the online dialogue and give our ideas a fighting chance."
Over 75% of the funding for American Majority comes from the Sam Adams Alliance. In 2008, the year in which American Majority was founded, 88% of the alliance's money came from a single donation, of $3.7m. A group that trains rightwing libertarians to distort online democratic processes was, in other words, set up with funding from a person or company with a very large wallet. |
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http://theconversation.com/astroturfing-the-climate-wars-five-ways-to-spot-a-troll-19011
Astroturfing the climate wars: five ways to spot a troll
| Quote: | Astroturfing is traditionally understood as the manufacture of a grassroots movement that is totally fake. Such synthetic grass was first cultivated in the US by the Tea Party, which would bankroll the hiring of flash-mob protesters and the swarming of news sites with the intention of drowning out discussion, and replacing it with a Tea Party ideology.
Today, astroturfing is not about creating the image of a unified grassroots movement, but rather the training of scores of individual crusaders to go out and crash blogs in online news sites. As such, it is an almost exclusively online affair, where participants are known as “trolls”. Trolls are supposed to look like they are acting independently, but it is alleged that they are co-ordinated largely by conservative think-tanks, like the IPA and Menzies House, the latter founded and funded by Cory Bernardi.
Bernardi, who was once Tony Abbott’s shadow parliamentary secretary, also founded the Conservative Leadership Foundation, to recruit young, digitally native volunteers. Bernardi has also used online media to attack windfarms and has twice been invited to speak to the sceptical extremists of the astroturf-friendly Heartland Institute in Chicago.
In Australia, the astroturfers are well organised, and were particularly active on Crikey last year, The Drum on the ABC, and are currently targeting The Conversation. For example, on climate change, Monash University metrics of Conversation authors show that the two authors who have attracted the most comments have both written substantially on climate change politics, and of these articles more than 45% of the comments could be identified as being from trolls. |
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Don't go coping out now - Remember we want to make sure you, a good person(cough cough), is heard. So don't be silent.
So who was the paid troll / shill? A name / handle will suffice.
Who was it who reported there was a a "right wing paid troll"? Is the amnesia crowd those who do not back your claim?
Why would they pay someone to post their propaganda here (an obscure wind information website sub forum of a niche sport)?
You claim that you beat the ---- out of everyone with your facts, so let us see these facts that you make claim to. |
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https://dianeravitch.net/2015/04/17/studentsfirst-launches-astroturf-group-to-write-blogs-and-be-trolls-on-social-media/
| Quote: | AlterNet reports that StudentsFirst has found a new project. It is seeking people willing to flood social media with anti-union, anti-public school, “reform” views.
The new group is called “The Truth Campaign for Teachers.” The email that landed on AlterNet’s doorstep is targeted on New Mexico, but the writer assumes that other states may have the same campaign.
Here’s a copy of the email we received from a source who says it appeared over the summer: |
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http://www.vice.com/read/trolls-paid-by-a-telecom-lobbying-firm-keep-commenting-on-my-net-neutrality-articles-806
Trolls Paid by a Telecom Lobbying Firm
Keep Commenting on My Net Neutrality Articles
http://egbertowillies.com/2011/04/14/the-billionaires-tea-party-proof-tea-party-is-nothing-but-astro-turf/
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This undercover video is a jewel. It shows the inner workings of the web of deception that is the Koch inspired Tea Party. It illustrates the calculated and methodical indoctrination of the very people hurt by the policies Koch inspired organizations promote.
Trolls play a big part in their planning.
The most telling part of this video is at the 43 minute mark where the organizers are teaching how to corrupt the ratings of documentaries, movies, truths, & liberal items by having an army of trolls downgrade these items on the Internet even as they upgrade Right Wing misinformation. These are the same people that target specific bloggers and other online personalities for concerted attacks.
I remember during the elections when I did a lot of vlogging with CNN iReport one of these trolls actually emailed me telling me I was wasting my time. He said they had enough paid ‘watchers’ to neutralize anything we were doing. |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 9:40 am Post subject: |
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So still nothing?
What did you make that bit of nonsense up?
So who was the paid troll?
Who pointed out the paid troll?
Why would anyone waste money trolling a windsurfing website sub sub sub forum? |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 9:45 am Post subject: |
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| You should just keeping repeating that lie, over and over and over and over again like your claims about people wanting to harm you. Just like your hero Adolph used to do. |
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