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Are Right-Wing Libertarian Internet Trolls Getting Paid to Dumb Down Online Conversations?
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There are daily attempts to control and influence content in the interests of the state and corporations: attempts in which money talks.
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They are the online equivalent of enclosure riots: the rick-burning, fence-toppling protests by English peasants losing their rights to the land. When MasterCard, Visa, Paypal and Amazon tried to shut WikiLeaks out of the cyber-commons, an army of hackers responded by trying to smash their way into these great estates and pull down their fences.
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