Wow, it's Sarten. the establishment trolls are here, now? But where's cold fjord?

"politically motivated"? like how the ACLU sued Verizon, as its customer, for selling out its customers to the NSA? You must be a fox news viewer--i can't find any other way to explain your profound ignorance.

"But we KNEW they had colluded with google, microsoft and facebook to spy on us!" "But we KNEW the NSA was intercepting shipments of cisco routers to compromise them!" "But we KNEW they're hiring an army of paid trolls to pollute forums!"

NSA-related posts on /. get way more comments than most other topics--is that indicative of "old news"? Think about that next time you say this BS.

The NSA doesn't care about stopping terrorism. That's a colorful yet familiar excuse. It cares about the end of privacy--and that is in its own employees' words.

is that facebook wants every bit of info about me in order to shill me products, mot to retroactively incriminate me if i were ever to become a threat. Facebook also doesn't care about what you fap to, but it's been proven that the NSA does--want to guess why?

None of us can force the broadband monopolies to compete when they act in alliance with one another, requiring a new contendet like google to force them out of their sedentary ways. You assume a free market in that realm when none exists.

big difference.

Yeah, i'm so sure that a former cable lobbyist like Wheeler and co. will see to it that cable companies are MORE burdened. You serioisly nelieve this?

When, in reality, the control ISPs have over our government, and the resulting lack of competition, is why broadband in this country is so expensive, and why the principle of net neutrality is on life support. You harbor the illusion that there exists a free market for broadband. There isn't, and our country's uncompetitive broadband scenario has unfolded as it chases the fleeting free market fantasy you just expressed.

What you said is incorrect. how do i know? because every time municipal wifi is offered, ISPs are there to prevent it from happening. Case in point: in 2004, the legislature in Philadelphia was going through the motions to allow this sort of thing for inner city folk. Verizon arrived and, and with some help from their puppet then-mayor Randall, drafted up a bill to prevent this sort of thing and pushed it through the legislature. So, the ISPs don't agree with you at all about what they would prefer.

Corporate astroturfing is one thing, but the matter being discussed in this thread is one of paid government shills. You're insisting this is nothing new, which is incorrect--the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 has enabled domestic propaganda for the first time since the cold war. http://thecable.foreignpolicy.... Yes, paid trolls on forums IS new. And it's clear you don't give a shit, because again, you won't even acknowledge the issue. You aren't the least bit concerned when dozens of posts of "fuck beta!" spam very specific threads here?

Every story he places on theintercept.org gets pages of mentions on google news. But please, keep peddling your lonely illusion that no one cares. No one will buy it, of course--the fact that you trolls have to fill this place with your nonsense shows just how hypocritical your claims of "no one cares!" really are.

It differs from other propaganda because it's happening HERE On /. There are establishment trolls all over this place trying to shape public opinion. How can you act so blasse, You say this is nothing new, but clearly it must be, because this concept didn't even occur to you! You don't even mention it. So spare me your lazy yawns so long as you lazily look past the elephant in the room. Waiting for cold fjord to post here.

"He's an asshole." Sounds pretty cut and dry to me. You can spare the rest of your words--your agenda is easily read between.

No one hates Aaron that fiercely. Your anger isn't convincing at all, but even so, I'm sure your masters are proud.