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Kim Dotcom: ‘Eat this FBI, leading the Time100 poll with a 93% approval rating'
- davidw 14y agoLeading an online poll is not that much of an achievement - it puts him in the august company of people such as Hank the angry drunken dwarf.
- rdl 14y agoI love how the FBI illegally fucking with him has essentially legitimized him. (Didn't really seem to work with Julian Assange, though)
- mschuster91 14y agoAssange is an entirely different case... while the US have proven in the Dotcom case that they're willing to step way over the boundaries of law (and force others to do so), Assanges cred took a huge dive as he fled to Great Britain, of all countries. That the Swedish government is a f..kbuddy of the USA is widely known since the TPB raid, but the GB gov't even went into war together with the Americans, just for the sake of it. So why did Assange choose a country with even CLOSER ties to the US to flee there?!
- emini_guy 14y agoI don't know how many have read this piece, but here is a scoop: "North Korean dictator and nuclear warmonger Kim Jong Un currently sits in ninth place, and Beyoncé is 11th." One heck of a poll.
- HunterV 14y agoDidn't Kim Jong Un win the poll last year? http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/12/4chan-votes-kim-jong-un-to-top-of-times-person-of-the-year-poll.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/12/4chan-votes-kim...
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- anigbrowl 14y agoFirst place for positive votes is Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi (no, I didn’t recognize the name either) Good grief. He should be embarrassed to call himself a journalist and be so ignorant of world affairs.
- Eliezer 14y agoIsn't that poll a total joke dominated by mass multi-vote hacks?
- JoshTriplett 14y agoYup. Just wondering what they'll make it spell this year.
- mschuster91 14y ago290k twitter followers aren't exactly a multi-vote hack
- jquery 14y agoOh, it's an online poll. For a moment I thought this was something worth being posted on HN.
- brazzy 14y agoBecause that is totally hard to manipulate and he's totally not the kind of person who'd do that. Right.
- mschuster91 14y agoI'd rather expect manipulation from Anonymous, in contrast to him they have a proven track record of manipulating online votes for teh lulz
- brazzy 14y agoKim Schmitz, on the other hand, has a proven track record of manipulating anything and everything for personal gain and self-aggrandization.
- djmdjm 14y agoIIRC at various times, the Time100 online poll has been led by L. Ron Hubbard, Ayn Rand, Kemal Ataturk and Paul Atreides.