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Gov't Paid Trolls in the Chatrooms - 9/25/2013 8:52:28 AM   
bossman777


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Status: offline 		This article makes me wonder how many of the comments posted on news sites and other forums are from paid government shills. Gov't is supposed to serve and obey the public's opinion, not manipulate public opinion! It's not a fair use of my tax dollars either.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/governments-hire-web-trolls-to-sway-public-opinion.html
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RE: Gov't Paid Trolls in the Chatrooms - 9/25/2013 8:55:07 AM   
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RE: Gov't Paid Trolls in the Chatrooms - 9/25/2013 9:11:16 AM   
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RE: Gov't Paid Trolls in the Chatrooms - 9/25/2013 9:57:47 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: bossman777
This article makes me wonder how many of the comments posted on news sites and other forums are from paid government shills. Gov't is supposed to serve and obey the public's opinion, not manipulate public opinion! It's not a fair use of my tax dollars either.

It should not be news to anyone that our own government has very active propaganda campaigns targeted at it's own citizens. Nor should it be news that our government has no compunctions about lying outright to it's citizens.

American citizens live in a mirror-box of state sponsored misinformation and propaganda.

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RE: Gov't Paid Trolls in the Chatrooms - 9/25/2013 10:02:13 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: bossman777

This article makes me wonder how many of the comments posted on news sites and other forums are from paid government shills. Gov't is supposed to serve and obey the public's opinion, not manipulate public opinion! It's not a fair use of my tax dollars either.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/governments-hire-web-trolls-to-sway-public-opinion.html



I can fathom no reason government would ever do that! Not one! To even think otherwise would be grounds for a visit to Room 101.

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RE: Gov't Paid Trolls in the Chatrooms - 9/25/2013 10:19:54 AM   
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Status: offline 		More Obama government paid trolls...

Obamacare HHS Grants $67 Million To Hire ACA “Navigators” Without Background Checks To Collect Your Personal Information
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/08/obamacare-hhs-grants-67-million-to-hire-aca-navigators/



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RE: Gov't Paid Trolls in the Chatrooms - 9/25/2013 10:22:24 AM   
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RE: Gov't Paid Trolls in the Chatrooms - 9/25/2013 10:25:57 AM   
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ORIGINAL: RacerJim

More Obama government paid trolls...

Obamacare HHS Grants $67 Million To Hire ACA “Navigators” Without Background Checks To Collect Your Personal Information
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/08/obamacare-hhs-grants-67-million-to-hire-aca-navigators/
Are we sure this has never happened before? Is this just the tip of the iceberg? Will we soon be incorporated into kenya, or n.korea?

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RE: Gov't Paid Trolls in the Chatrooms - 9/25/2013 10:26:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		Lies for the gullible and feeble minded. Cute but factless, knowing lies by the hysterically mental defectives.

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RE: Gov't Paid Trolls in the Chatrooms - 9/25/2013 10:27:05 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Phydeaux

More disturbingly, in NYC the've recreated acorn and hired them as a navigator group.


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RE: Gov't Paid Trolls in the Chatrooms - 9/25/2013 10:54:12 AM   
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RE: Gov't Paid Trolls in the Chatrooms - 9/25/2013 11:02:10 AM   
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RE: Gov't Paid Trolls in the Chatrooms - 9/25/2013 8:16:18 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

Where can I get a job like that?



Try Organizing for Action, though it's more likely to be offered through temp agencies to people who went 100 grand in debt for a degree in marketing, and are now willing to accept what amounts to a minimum wage, part-time job in a boiler room, being monitored constantly to make sure they don't go off message, or express an independent thought.

Besides, the organizations get their best results from the useful idiots who do it for free, sitting home all day, regurgitating whatever talking point shows up in the inbox.

I understand they also do some hiring among the unemployable members in the union halls.

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RE: Gov't Paid Trolls in the Chatrooms - 9/26/2013 1:10:41 AM   
joether


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Status: offline 		The difference between "The Onion" and "Prison Planet" is one funny and the other is in dire need of a company jacket that has long arms that tie together in the back!

I've never found Prison Planet to have much credibility...

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RE: Gov't Paid Trolls in the Chatrooms - 9/26/2013 1:19:01 AM   
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The difference between "The Onion" and "Prison Planet" is one funny and the other is in dire need of a company jacket that has long arms that tie together in the back!

They're both funny, but for entirely different reasons.

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RE: Gov't Paid Trolls in the Chatrooms - 9/26/2013 2:23:05 AM   
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I wonder if the chatroom trolls will count as "essential" employees in the event of a shutdown.

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RE: Gov't Paid Trolls in the Chatrooms - 9/26/2013 5:19:03 AM   
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ORIGINAL: joether
The difference between "The Onion" and "Prison Planet" is one funny and the other is in dire need of a company jacket that has long arms that tie together in the back!

They're both funny, but for entirely different reasons.


Completely agree. And, that there are people who treat both as oracles, is equally scary.


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RE: Gov't Paid Trolls in the Chatrooms - 9/26/2013 5:51:36 AM   
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RE: Gov't Paid Trolls in the Chatrooms - 9/26/2013 6:13:50 AM   
Lucylastic


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We had this discussion back in 2008 and 2012
Disinformation, lies n bullshit(anyone remember death panels?)
some people really have no clue about how long this is going on, or that both sides are complicit.
I believe even the actual ads were mentioned in previous years, but I sure as hell am not gonna research it.

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RE: Gov't Paid Trolls in the Chatrooms - 9/26/2013 6:18:18 AM   
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