Dead People Mysteriously Support the FCC's Attack on Net Neutrality

Re:Dead People Mysteriously Support the FCC's Attack on Net ... by Schizotypy on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @02:47PM (#15604310)

Why doesn't someone do the same thing but for net neutrality? Just make a bot to spam with fake or dead names in favor of neutrality to balance it out. The FCC apparently won't do anything either way so why not

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Re:Dead People Mysteriously Support the FCC's Attack on Net ... by sounds on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @02:49PM (#15604332)

This is a technically creative approach, and I think the internet's future is unfortunately going to be something like this.

But I for one would rather take the high road. Please call your senator(s) and representative(s) and let them know how upset this all is making you!

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Re:Dead People Mysteriously Support the FCC's Attack on Net ... by forapurpose on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @03:18PM (#15604610)

> the internet's future is unfortunately going to be something like this

It's not the future; it's been going on for a long time. The Chinese and Russian governments have long run large astroturfing propaganda operations, astroturfing by U.S. businesses (and I assume those in other countries) is an old story, and the last U.S. presidential election was swamped by social media propaganda operations, foreign and domestic.

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Re:Dead People Mysteriously Support the FCC's Attack on Net ... by ShabbosGoy on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @02:51PM (#15604358)

How about ditching Web 2.0 entirely? It's time to head to Web 3.0, an era where the Internet will be truly decentralized and free.

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Re:Dead People Mysteriously Support the FCC's Attack on Net ... by hinkley on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @03:07PM (#15604508)

So we are talking about people pretending to be people they aren’t, and your solution is decentralize the whole thing?

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Re:Dead People Mysteriously Support the FCC's Attack on Net ... by anigbrowl on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @03:09PM (#15604519)

Yes, but how? I got really into Semantic web stuff maybe 5-6 years ago and I thought it would have taken over by now but it seems to have withered for lack of development. You're welcome to email me with your thoughts if you prefer.

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Re:Dead People Mysteriously Support the FCC's Attack on Net ... by sounds on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @05:19PM (#15605562)

Sorry about the others downvoting you. If you dig into my comment history, I've written about a few ways to do this.

Great suggestion.

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Re:Dead People Mysteriously Support the FCC's Attack on Net ... by pavel_lishin on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @03:23PM (#15604662)

Will it be unicorn-fart powered, or are you thinking some sort of genie-based system?

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Re:Dead People Mysteriously Support the FCC's Attack on Net ... by anigbrowl on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @03:07PM (#15604507)

Because they'll be denounced as hypocrites and possibly prosecuted. We're not dealing with people who play fair here, and playing legal jeopardy when you're in the defensive posture is self-defeating. There are other tactics that are more effective and don't compromise the moral position to the same degree, eg digging into the financial interests of the opponent, exposing their operations (as in this story) etc.

When I mention the moral level I don't mean in a kindergargertenish way. The moral dimension of conflict is a key part of modern military strategy, because success in war, as an elaboration of politics, depends heavily on public buy-in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boyd_(military_strategist...

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