Re: <nettime> Ideological Turks

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

'bot' appears to be colloquial name for NPCs paid to post comments along 
the party lines (live humans working for low wages, allegedly often 
remunerated in food - sandwiches etc.) "SNS" is the ruling party (right 
wingers converted to euroiberals.)

On 12/9/18, 19:01, Thomas Keenan wrote:
> The original article is amusingly fuzzy about who or what is doing the
> commenting.
>
> http://ozonpress.net/politika/naprednjacka-strogoca-ko-ne-plati-clanarinu-do-ponedeljka-nek-se-spremi-za-smenu/
>
> translation into googlish:
>
> "From the report of a party official in charge of the Internet team
> (read party bots), it could be heard that the SNS has 3,456 bots in
> charge of lively comments on portals, websites, FB sites ... In a year,
> bots have written about 10 million comments on 201,717 published news .
> Only 24 hours ahead of the Executive Committee meeting through the SNS
> system passed 1,147 news that the party bots made over 43,000 comments.
> Vojvodina is the leader when the activities of the SNS Internet team,
> The bots in question, and the best among the best are the bots from the
> South Banat District."
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