Kevin Gleeson's Serious Blog

Saturday, January 26, 2008

How is that fringe candidate Ron Paul's people own the Net?

And, while we're on it, is anyone else here throroughly annoyed by these people?

By my estimate, Ron Paul has simply got to have the biggest Internet spam operation in history. His people are running all over the Net like they own the place, spamming anything with a type field on it. They're posting to YouTube video comments, blogs, discussion boards, and Amazon product reviews. Go to Yahoo Answers where someone asks a question and you'll see a Ron Paul spam post in the answers, signed off with a mile long list of campaign organizations no one will ever join.

Who's the manpower behind this campaign? Is it a cult of mind slaves holed up with laptops in a boiler room, tapping away at link after link and pasting diatribes wherever there's a hole? Is it a single nonliving spambot following link chains and autosurfing webrings? Maybe it's a human/automated hybrid, or "libertarian", getting one hour of sleep a day tripping out on dope, I mean "hemp", maniacally clicking sites and polluting hard drives globally with pasted boilerplate. Voters, let's trounce Ron Paul to give this guy a rest.

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