They're trying to manipulate the comments in our threads by having their whole team infiltrate a certain thread, one of them makes an anti-pizzagate comment, and their whole team upvotes it.
They have bots that create accounts that only upvote the accounts they're programed to. They do this all day long on disqus too. It's easier to tell there because you can see who upvoted the comment and most never comment.
It doesn't stop them from voting and making new accounts. It also will cause the mods to lose their CCP to old goats downvoting the shit out of us for it.
From a policy perspective, it is confusing that a super PAC is allowed to make political communications to voters without the accompanying disclosure that the Federal Election Commission usually requires—that familiar “This communication has been paid for by Correct the Record” that you hear during campaign commercials. But several years ago, the FEC made a decision to regulate the internet differently than other forms of communication. At the time, the regulator was concerned that “individuals might simply cease their Internet activities rather than attempt to comply with regulations they found overly burdensome and costly,” and so it chose to err on the side of free speech.
According to Ann Ravel, an FEC commissioner as well as its former chairwoman, the commission has largely declined to update its pre-smartphone era rules to keep up with changing times, and this has allowed savvy political actors to exploit gaps in the regulations.
“The United States Supreme Court has clearly upheld disclosure and anti-coordination by these independent expenditure groups,” Ravel said. “So both of those two principles are clearly agreed to in the law, and it’s frustrating to me to see how we’re carving out a dual campaign-finance system that’s applicable to some but not others.”
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anon123 ago
They're trying to manipulate the comments in our threads by having their whole team infiltrate a certain thread, one of them makes an anti-pizzagate comment, and their whole team upvotes it.
ThePuppetShow ago
They have bots that create accounts that only upvote the accounts they're programed to. They do this all day long on disqus too. It's easier to tell there because you can see who upvoted the comment and most never comment.
DooDooDoodle ago
Why don't mods ban the shills?
Crensch ago
It doesn't stop them from voting and making new accounts. It also will cause the mods to lose their CCP to old goats downvoting the shit out of us for it.
DooDooDoodle ago
That's why we need to start pressuring the FEC to force them to disclose paid political speech and coordinated political speech online.
http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/complain.shtml
From a policy perspective, it is confusing that a super PAC is allowed to make political communications to voters without the accompanying disclosure that the Federal Election Commission usually requires—that familiar “This communication has been paid for by Correct the Record” that you hear during campaign commercials. But several years ago, the FEC made a decision to regulate the internet differently than other forms of communication. At the time, the regulator was concerned that “individuals might simply cease their Internet activities rather than attempt to comply with regulations they found overly burdensome and costly,” and so it chose to err on the side of free speech.
According to Ann Ravel, an FEC commissioner as well as its former chairwoman, the commission has largely declined to update its pre-smartphone era rules to keep up with changing times, and this has allowed savvy political actors to exploit gaps in the regulations.
“The United States Supreme Court has clearly upheld disclosure and anti-coordination by these independent expenditure groups,” Ravel said. “So both of those two principles are clearly agreed to in the law, and it’s frustrating to me to see how we’re carving out a dual campaign-finance system that’s applicable to some but not others.”
http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/complain.shtml