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Re:FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote by tptacek on Thursday February 26, 2015 @05:19PM (#9115963)
Comments like this are what make musings about astroturfing so toxic.

I don't know what it is about us message board nerds that makes this so hard to grok, but you cannot suggest that someone is a shill without overtly calling their integrity into question. Questioning someone's integrity is intrinsically uncivil. Don't be uncivil.

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Re:FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote by ChrisAntaki on Thursday February 26, 2015 @05:32PM (#9116019)
What I'm hearing is you'd like to make the topic of astroturfing "off-limits", because you feel its discussion is "toxic".
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Re:FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote by mfukar on Friday February 27, 2015 @05:03AM (#9118073)
That's exactly what "message board nerds" do: focus on the gestalt rather than the substance. Call people out as not p.c. to silence an opinion.
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