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Do you deny that the DRP gov't is directly or indirectly paying many thousands of people to wage a vast information war on social media?
by datameta 6y ago
Do you deny that the DRP gov't is directly or indirectly paying many thousands of people to wage a vast information war on social media?
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- sangnoir 6y agoThat is correct, but the current HN guidelines state that if you suspect voting-rings or other manipulation, contact the mods out-of-band and they'll attend to it. Commenting about it and accusing people of shilling solely based on their opposition to your point of view degrades the conversation every single time. The mods have more data points to correlate and can remediate if necessary.
- ardy42 6y ago> Do you deny that the DRP gov't is directly or indirectly paying many thousands of people to wage a vast information war on social media? First of all, I'm assuming by "DRP" you mean the PRC. Is DRP a non-English acronym? The PRC definitely employs online shills, but my understanding is that they're mostly active on the Chinese language internet. I think the people we encounter on the English internet who seem like shills actually have more in common with GamerGate than the actual government-employed 50 cent party. They even go on hamfisted GamerGate-like harassment campaigns against people they don't like.