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To be fair, groups on both sides of politics do this all the time, in fact change.org campaigns basically send a million copies of the same e-mail (with only th

To be fair, groups on both sides of politics do this all the time, in fact change.org campaigns basically send a million copies of the same e-mail (with only the sender's name changed) to "targets" and we don't seem to think there's anything wrong with that. I've seen many many LGBT campaigns targeting conservative websites and facebook pages with copy-and-paste content as well. Also, calling this "brigading" is a bit of a reach, given it seems that real unpaid people are copying and pasting the comments in their own names. But then again, if these people were pro-neutrality, Vice would probably be calling it a "grassroots internet campaign". What's good for the goose...

Spooky23 10y ago
Most congresspeople and some other political types have constituent management systems that handle this stuff. One system I evaluated would detect this kind of blather, and would rate lower when tallying constituent support for an issue. Paper letters got a bonus. In the FCCs case, they don't really answer to anyone, so this sort of campaign may be more valuable, as it gives puppets like Chairman Pai something to demonstrate public support. Bureaucrats just need CYA.
astaroth360 10y ago
Yeah, but I don't remember hearing chants of "lock him up" during the election, despite his nearly endless list of unethical and potentially illegal financial transactions. Oh, and let's not forgot about Russia hacking the DNC and giving it WikiLeaks. Little by little, they gave up more to Assange, so that the outrage machine would never die out. Putin threw the democrats into complete chaos, and Sanders didn't do much to help, what with his, "oh it's a rigged election" BS. Trump took that line straight from Bernie: "This election is rigged you know". Pathological liars and unethical monsters should not be running the only real superpower in the world, barring China.
- nitrogen 10y ago
  Polls indicated Sanders would have beaten Trump. The DNC damaged itself at least as much as it was damaged by hacking.

Spooky23 10y ago

Most congresspeople and some other political types have constituent management systems that handle this stuff. One system I evaluated would detect this kind of blather, and would rate lower when tallying constituent support for an issue. Paper letters got a bonus. In the FCCs case, they don't really answer to anyone, so this sort of campaign may be more valuable, as it gives puppets like Chairman Pai something to demonstrate public support. Bureaucrats just need CYA.

astaroth360 10y ago

Yeah, but I don't remember hearing chants of "lock him up" during the election, despite his nearly endless list of unethical and potentially illegal financial transactions. Oh, and let's not forgot about Russia hacking the DNC and giving it WikiLeaks. Little by little, they gave up more to Assange, so that the outrage machine would never die out. Putin threw the democrats into complete chaos, and Sanders didn't do much to help, what with his, "oh it's a rigged election" BS. Trump took that line straight from Bernie: "This election is rigged you know". Pathological liars and unethical monsters should not be running the only real superpower in the world, barring China.

nitrogen 10y ago
Polls indicated Sanders would have beaten Trump. The DNC damaged itself at least as much as it was damaged by hacking.