I'm tilting at windmills today!

[conuly]

Emailed three different news sites asking when the hell they intend to start moderating their comments. Seriously, a free-for-all where everybody shouts as loud as they can is not conducive to free speech.

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[nodrog]

That turns out to be a well-founded suspicion.


        … It's of course impossible to tell whose vitriol is genuine and whose is
        being bankrolled, but at least some anti-Western comments appear to come
        from staffers the Russian government pays to sit in a room, surf the
        Internet, and leave sometimes hundreds of postings a day that criticize the
        country's opposition and promote Kremlin-backed policymakers…

        A Russian journalist who visited one such comment-mill, the St. Petersburg
        Internet Research Agency, met with a coordinator who said the job was not
        unlike writing copy for a hair dryer: "The only difference is that this
        hair dryer is a political one."

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/10/russias-online-comment-propaganda-army/280432/