In a diary titled “The HB Gary Email That Should Concern Us All” at Daily Kos, Happy Rockefeller warns all of the “concern” one should have for somebody possibly rigging the blog system:
According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HB Gary emails, it involves creating an army of sockpuppets, with sophisticated “persona management” software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidentally cross-contaminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online.
For those not “in the know”, here’s why this diary is a lollercaust of irony:
(WARNING: THE FOLLOWING LINK IS A LARGE PDF SO DON’T CLICK IF YOU HATE PDF’S!!!!)
http://freespeechzoneblog.com/…
….and if you do hate PDF’s, you’re racist.
Basically, the PDF shows a site from a while back where some high-up Daily Kos moderators and political consultants conspired to ban those they didn’t approve of arbitrarily invoking the “rules” at their leisure.
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The Brooks Brothers Riot.
You bad boy, you’re supposed to warn people that your link is a PDF. I knew it, but not everybody will.
I don’t really know what to say, but my immediate reaction is a mingled feeling of amazement and pity.
of steaming shit. Who are these authoritarian assholes, and why do they exist?
One thing for sure-they are not progressives.