Getting a 403 error on their site, but the archive remembers [0] and yeah - that website is wildly sus.
Lil offtopic: This is interesting stuff on its own, so I don't want to distract from the important discussion. However, OP might want to know: I don't think I've ever seen a new account's first (utterly inoffensive) comment show up [dead] like theirs [1]. (You might need [showdead] on to see that, idk.)
I sometimes wonder who is insane enough to be behind these schemes.
I mean what degree of alienation does it require to setup a website that claims to be about an advocacy group for children safety, while it is in fact a fake site for an org funneling lobbying money into passing laws that makes their boss more money. How can they live like this?
And then I remember the Monsanto lobbyists, the Sacklers' enablers, the cigarette people and the oil lawyers. I guess there is just a ton of people who are natural born minions.
> there is just a ton of people who are natural born minions
Yeah I think that's kind of it.
I'd prefer to believe that it's school/culture/religion making people like that... And those are definitely factors.
However, I personally think that it's probably just more effective, evolutionarily speaking, to not have too many independent thinkers in a tribe.
The 'funny' part is that we call the people who are naturally resistant to following the herd "neurodivergent" - and then try to medicate them into conformity. As if the herd is doing such a great job right now.
Getting a 403 error on their site, but the archive remembers [0] and yeah - that website is wildly sus.
Lil offtopic: This is interesting stuff on its own, so I don't want to distract from the important discussion. However, OP might want to know: I don't think I've ever seen a new account's first (utterly inoffensive) comment show up [dead] like theirs [1]. (You might need [showdead] on to see that, idk.)
Anyone have any insight?
0 - https://web.archive.org/web/20250324144815/https://www.digit...
1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361290
It is a bit bizarre . Isn't it just a link [0] to their github repository? The same as in OPs post?
0 - https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
The real question is why? How does this make meta more money?
Afaik whole scheme started when Australian politicians threatened gambling advertising ban.
This is not about making money.
Fantastic research
Findings: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings...
I sometimes wonder who is insane enough to be behind these schemes.
I mean what degree of alienation does it require to setup a website that claims to be about an advocacy group for children safety, while it is in fact a fake site for an org funneling lobbying money into passing laws that makes their boss more money. How can they live like this?
And then I remember the Monsanto lobbyists, the Sacklers' enablers, the cigarette people and the oil lawyers. I guess there is just a ton of people who are natural born minions.
> there is just a ton of people who are natural born minions
Yeah I think that's kind of it.
I'd prefer to believe that it's school/culture/religion making people like that... And those are definitely factors.
However, I personally think that it's probably just more effective, evolutionarily speaking, to not have too many independent thinkers in a tribe.
The 'funny' part is that we call the people who are naturally resistant to following the herd "neurodivergent" - and then try to medicate them into conformity. As if the herd is doing such a great job right now.
Re-posting findings, cause somehow OP's message was downvoted:
https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings...