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Don't kid yourself. People can and do disagree, but they doesn't preclude the fact that astroturfing absolutely does happen as well, and it's absolutely a probl
by deadmetheny 9y ago
Don't kid yourself. People can and do disagree, but they doesn't preclude the fact that astroturfing absolutely does happen as well, and it's absolutely a problem.
- searine 9y ago>but they doesn't preclude the fact that astroturfing absolutely does happen as well, and it's absolutely a problem. Occam's razor. What is more likely : A. This normal person on the internet disagrees with me. B. There is a multinational conspiracy to control the narrative on topic X and in reality everyone universally agrees with me that topic X is a bad thing.
- deadmetheny 9y agoYou are hopeless.
- dang 9y agoThis breaks the HN guidelines. Please post civilly and substantively or not at all, regardless of how wrong someone else is. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- kaybe 9y agoYour phrasing makes this quite unbalanced. How about B. Huge conglomerate with huge advertising budget uses some of that money on new innovative grass-roots advertising strategy (which is not illegal and can be very effective especially compared to online ads).