> It's presumptuous to pretend that a free speech site with about 1000 regular You realize that the viewership is larger than the participant base? They're getting college kids as volunteers, or low wage employees over at JIDF. Not to mention **20,000** odd federal law enforcement officials working in post 9/11 fusion centers, spread out across the internet. Yours is a small world. > invaded by hordes of paid shill/bots Actually thats exactly how it works. They have two pieces of software in these organizations: one for managing informing, mostly scrapped from the pages rather than manually entered (this is for IO purposes), and what are called 'personality management suites', which is just shitty software that allows a user to 1. connect to a proxy or vpn, 2. log in with an alt account, 3. provides standard scripts to various responses and what amount to sales funnels, but in this case its used for 'finding terrorists' lol, basically provoking retards into making threats/legal prosecutable statements. Yes that sounds insane, and yes it is a real thing. Welcome to the world of federal contracting.