Are there paid shills and debunkers on the internet?
Posted: 19 Jul 2012, 11:41
Are there paid shills and debunkers on the internet spreading lies, disinfo and propaganda to try to suppress truth? It would make sense that there were, since the media is controlled and infiltrated, why can't the internet as well? Every powerful group is going to want to try to sway public opinion, after all.
Could some or most of the debunkers and pseudoskeptics on this forum be paid online shills too? Very possible.
After all, why would anyone want to desperately defend the established viewpoint on everything, against all logic, evidence and reason? No honest rational objective human being would do that. Only someone with an agenda would.
Here are a bunch of links and news articles about online paid shills:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7783640.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/20 ... l-networks
http://www.infowars.com/canadian-govern ... at-forums/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/1 ... 37153.html
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/18/r ... al-people/
What I don't get though, is that if there are paid shills on the internet, why haven't any of them come out and blown the whistle and said, "I was a paid internet shill. This is who hired me..." and so and so?
Could some or most of the debunkers and pseudoskeptics on this forum be paid online shills too? Very possible.
After all, why would anyone want to desperately defend the established viewpoint on everything, against all logic, evidence and reason? No honest rational objective human being would do that. Only someone with an agenda would.
Here are a bunch of links and news articles about online paid shills:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7783640.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/20 ... l-networks
http://www.infowars.com/canadian-govern ... at-forums/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/1 ... 37153.html
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/18/r ... al-people/
What I don't get though, is that if there are paid shills on the internet, why haven't any of them come out and blown the whistle and said, "I was a paid internet shill. This is who hired me..." and so and so?