The emails “often had same blocs of texts”...
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One might say the same of the broadcasts on NBC/CBS/ABC/CNN/MSNBC
We all have a limited amount that we can read. Could you give us a brief idea of what these bots are saying?
Those bots were on overdrive from the left supporting “Net Neutrality” last year...but the media said it was all legit.
One could say “bots’ colluded in 2016 from all enemies of the Republic domestic and foreign. If I could, I would destroy the social media giants yesterday for what they did and what they do. Hiding behind the First Amendment is no excuse.
How is this different than robocalls or mass mailings, for example? Sounds like it’s just politicians wanting to regulate criticism against themselves.
Bots and paid human trolls infest comments of most online media now. FR is the exception, and CTH. But they’ve taken over disqus and others.
Media Matters does this a lot.
It would be nice to have a law that tags all paid trolls, and bots. I doubt 1st ammendment issue would get in the way, if carefully crafted. Merge it into a duplicate of the EU data law. Where YOU own your data, and must “opt in” for any collection. Along with “The Right to be Forgotten.”
Gulag, fakebook, and twitter are completely against such a movement, and have paid off every lawmaker who can be bought already. Which is most of them. It would take a big grassroots effort to get that all done, correctly.
They’re already heading it off at the pass, by quietly writing a seriously wattered down bill to give them cover. It’s being worked on right now, quietly. B friken S!!!