01-10-2013, 03:02 PM
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Originally posted by rainyjim
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Originally posted by afwjam
PaulW, why do you always resort to personal attacks?
I notice this as well Afwjam!
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Originally posted by PaulW
That's an interesting statement - and not just for your inability to spell "than".
In order to distort reality, you severely restrict one side of the equation while
expanding the other...
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Originally posted by PaulW
Yes, quickly switch to talking about drugs instead, that's the way to do it.
"Its getting better all the time."
http://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_co...ts_its.htm
"Teams of these sock-puppets are hired by party leaders to drown out critical voices and derail intelligent debates"
If Paul's comments weren't intended to derail intelligent debate by focusing on misspellings then I don't know what...
I don't really think Paul is being paid by anyone to say these things, but hey I wouldn't think twice about some big corporate entity doing this - just look at the debt our country is dealing with!
It's not only Paul, and its not only on Punaweb. These types are all over the Internet, I've wondered about this and found a couple of possibilities.
First, would be astroturfing -
They are the online equivalent of enclosure riots: the rick-burning, fence-toppling protests by English peasants losing their rights to the land. When MasterCard, Visa, Paypal and Amazon tried to shut WikiLeaks out of the cyber-commons, an army of hackers responded by trying to smash their way into these great estates and pull down their fences.
In the Wikileaks punch-up the commoners appear to have the upper hand. But it’s just one battle. There’s a wider cyberwar being fought, of which you hear much less. And in most cases the landlords, with the help of a mercenary army, are winning.
I’m not talking here about threats to net neutrality and the danger of a two-tier internet developing, though these are real. I’m talking about the daily attempts to control and influence content in the interests of the state and corporations: attempts in which money talks.
The weapon used by both state and corporate players is a technique known as astroturfing. An astroturf campaign is one that mimics spontaneous grassroots mobilizations, but which has in reality been organized. Anyone writing a comment piece in Mandarin critical of the Chinese government, for example, is likely to be bombarded with abuse by people purporting to be ordinary citizens, upset by the slurs against their country.
But many of them aren’t upset: they are members of the 50 Cent Party, so-called because one Chinese government agency pays 5 mao (half a yuan) for every post its tame commenters write. Teams of these sock-puppets are hired by party leaders to drown out critical voices and derail intelligent debates.
More to be found on: http://current.com/community/93896214_ar...ations.htm
Sorry if this seems utterly random to anyone - most of it was based off another thread on PunaTalk and I derail enough threads as it is!
Cheers
rainyjim
All this coming from the biggest Troll that ever lived??
It becomes the equivilant of debating for the continuation of an assult rifle with a 100 bullet magazine for personal protection!!!