The Ron Paul Effect
Even some of the more popular conservative blogs have had enough of the Ron Paul wingnut supporters trolling through their comments sections and stuffing their online polls.
Effective immediately, new users may *not* shill for Ron Paul in any way shape, form or fashion. Not in comments, not in diaries, nada. If your account is less than 6 months old, you can talk about something else, you can participate in the other threads and be your zany libertarian self all you want, but you cannot pimp Ron Paul. Those with accounts more than six months old may proceed as normal.
Now, I could offer a long-winded explanation for *why* this new policy is being instituted, but I’m guessing that most of you can probably guess. Unless you lack the self-awareness to understand just how annoying, time-consuming, and bandwidth-wasting responding to the same idiotic arguments from a bunch of liberals pretending to be Republicans can be. Which, judging by your comment history, you really don’t understand, so allow me to offer an alternate explanation: we are a bunch of fascists and we’re upset that you’ve discovered where we keep the black helicopters, so we’re silencing you in an attempt to keep you from warning the rest of your brethren so we can round you all up and send you to re-education camps all at once.
So, You’re against people using their free speech on the internet in favor of any candidate or just Ron Paul?
Maybe Ron Paul supporters do so much on the internet because all of the mainstream media broadcasters are leaving him out of discussions and polls. They don’t give him a fair chance and it is obvious…
The mainstream media tries to make him sound a lot less popular than he really is and I bet he would be considered even more popular if they gave him a chance to say what he has to say - a message that many Americans agree with.
You think the polls are the result of fanatics who text in over and over? The Fox system is set up to where people can only vote once anyhow. That’s ridiculous to assume it is hacking… There is a problem with any phone in poll, in statistics they teach you that any survey that requires effort to vote is usually going to attract passionate people (oppressed supporters are very passionate) and that a phone in poll or internet poll by a news media station that attracts certain ideaology-based groups is going to have some flaws in fairness…
I think revolutionary change against serious problems is worth some of the extra time and bandwidth to concious citizens who care about the future of their people and their country.
As a moderate/independent, shouldn’t you feel compelled to look at more than just one side of a story?
Of all the kinds of people to be so harsh on free speech… Do what you want anyhow, it’s your blog.
This isn’t about both sides of the story, it’s about a very popular republican blog chastising the over zealousness of a republican candidate’s supporters and putting a muzzle on them.
The only free speech on most blogs involves the owner exercising it. Comments on a blog aren’t free speech, the blog owner can allow or disallow them at their discretion and the stuffing of said comments by Ron Paul supporters has become an issue with some blogs. That isn’t me taking a stand one way or another, it is just fact.
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