Pro-gun Russian bots flood Twitter after parkland shooting
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#2Are they absolutely sure it was Russia or are they going to quietly retract that like last time?
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#3Didn't Twitter delete all the Russian bots like two weeks ago ? They need to run that script again, put it as a cron job!
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#4David Satter, "The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep"
Re: Pro-gun Russian bots flood Twitter after parkland shooting
#5Note that while the headline says the bots are "pro-gun", the article says the bots flood Twitter with messages on both sides of an issue like this. The idea supposedly being to encourage political discord in general.
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#6Are they absolutely sure it was Russia or are they going to quietly retract that like last time?
what was last time?
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#7Note that while the headline says the bots are "pro-gun", the article says the bots flood Twitter with messages on both sides of an issue like this. The idea supposedly being to encourage political discord in general.
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#8There will come a time when we will disconnect the international and intercontinental internet connections until we've figured out how to keep democracy functioning in a connected world.
It may get to the point where activities such as these will be classed right along with acts of war, I have no idea what the solution is but clearly the downsides of our early days attempt at creating a 'hive mind' are starting to weigh pretty heavily.
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#9I can see how certain aspects of US politics are interesting to russian botnets (assuming they too are politically controlled to some extent, which I think is safe to say). Foreign policy is very much dependent on who is president, and US foregin policy is amatter of billions of dollars for Russia.
But gun laws? What's the reasoning behind that? It doesn't add up. On the contrary, it would rather seem like some group in the US (Say a large gun rights organization of some form) would buy these services from the russians. The Russian twitter troll factories don't work for free, and in this case there doesn't seem to be a reason why Russia would pay for this?
Edit: another poster pointed out: there is one thing russia would gain from and that's political division and instability. Next up: pay someone to have a very public and very late abortion, for example.
Re: Pro-gun Russian bots flood Twitter after parkland shooting
#10There will come a time when we will disconnect the international and intercontinental internet connections until we've figured out how to keep democracy functioning in a connected world. It may get to the point where activities such as these will be classed right along with acts of war, I have no idea what the solution is but clearly the downsides of our early days attempt at creating a 'hive mind' are starting to we…
Not sure how you can disconnect the internet. Basically would involve disconnecting all comms. Lest someone uses a modem. Then what about long distance RF?