Cable Companies Are Astroturfing Fake Consumer Support to End Net Neutrality
To make a modest proposal, there is a business idea here.<p>Putin's junta has the Swedish (and other minority languages) comment fields filled up with propaganda.<p>The Russian comments are <i>easily</i> recognizable by the opinions (even the left wing extremists in Sweden are upset by 1930s style destabilisation and overtaking of areas in Europe).<p>But at least half the problem is the obviously bad language idioms etc. You can't just translate arguments and use them in all cultural environments. Also, the fake upvotes for the media which accept them are clunky and obvious. It is just not competently done astroturf.<p>All this goes for Chinese and Iranian political astroturfing etc as well.<p>To sell high quality astroturf as a service in different countries should be worth lots of money. Even big countries like Russia struggle to organize the service competently, then they have part time employees which aren't specialized.<p>Edit: I assume that e.g. China, if they don't go democratic, later will add a minority language/culture as work requirement for their armies -- note plural -- of censors. So there is a window of opportunity before some junta implement this and sell the service to other dictators and equally moral companies.<p>(For anyone missing the "modest proposal", this is tongue in cheek. At least mostly.)<p>Edit: Fixed clarity etc.