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RE: The Net is Liberated as So-Called 'Net Neutrality' Control is Officially Dead Today
So many people were so rooted on the "keep net neutrality" bandwagon that I felt like i was taking crazy pills. It's nice to see some sanity here! That issue seemed to me to have more blind following than a lot of other politicized issues among my social networks. I'm wondering if it's just my network or if others observed that too!
It's all blind following when it comes to any of these issues now unfortunately! At least we know better! ;)
I guess, it blows my mind that people would hear that we need regulation on the internet and not immediately question that... when I heard what net neutrality was the red flags in my brain immediately were raised! People need to question things a bit more!
Govt's always name things to sound virtuous and good. i.e. the "Patriot Act" I only picked up on these sorts of things after that!
You were not taking crazy pills, they were just astroturfing to look like they had tons of support.
It is pretty cheap to do on reddit/facebook/twitter, something like only tens of thousands of dollars to maintain for months of bots. The bots are sophisticated and talk to themselves and even upvote eachother.
There were so many people impersonating Vitalik and it got so bad he changed his twitter name to Vitalik "not giving away ETH" Buterin, and the bots copied his name lol!
They targeted Elon Musk and many bitcoin devs and stuff too.
Heres a quick example of them in action for Ethereum scams on Vitalik's twitter.
Yeah it's crazy. I used to browse Imgur and that whole community lost it's marbles over NN. Anybody that questioned the masses got downvoted and called ridiculous names (most of which lacked creativity) no matter how solid the argument. That message gets pushed by those with agendas and bots and then cascades throughout a surprising portion of the population that's active on social media. Well, either a surprising portion or at least most of the loudest virtue signalers :)