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It Appears There Are Hijacked Freeper Accounts
3/1/15

Posted on 03/01/2015 2:25:18 AM PST by Enlightened1

I found three Freepers (in the last 24 hours that prior to a few days ago (10 days at the most) have not been active in a very long time...... At least a year and a half or more. The other two Freepers have no posts for 7 years and 3 years.

Now prior to that time gap all would have maybe 1 or 2 posts a years several years ago. Yet in the last few days they are posting a lot. I find that very odd?

I think these accounts have been hijacked by the opposition?

For those that are wondering what is an Internet Troll? Trolls, post a deliberately provocative message or messages to a newsgroup or message boards/threads with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument. This is done primarily by opposition groups.

I'm sure someone could figure out WHO is doing this. We just need to do a trace route on the account to see where it's coming from.

Here are some articles about it for anyone that does not know about this. Watch your 6 Freepers.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/gchqs-dark-arts-leaked-documents-reveal-online-manipulation-facebook-youtube-snooping/

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/08/darpa-social-networks-research-twitter-influence-studies

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/04/04/cuban-twitter-scam-social-media-tool-disseminating-government-propaganda/


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KEYWORDS: faq; freerepublic; paranoid; trolls
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To: Gaffer
"Yes, I was poster number 4. I had valid questions that still have not been answered."

I'd be willing to bet you won't get your answers.

181 posted on 03/01/2015 7:59:34 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: Enlightened1

Till now the gravy wasn’t cold.


182 posted on 03/01/2015 8:01:18 AM PST by csmusaret (Will remove Obama-Biden bumperstickers for $10)
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To: WildHighlander57
"It starts at post #23 in the thread that you linked."

Thanks for pointing that out. I posted the link in a hurry; I should have specified it myself.

183 posted on 03/01/2015 8:01:19 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: Enlightened1

Hey, I see you’re posting on other threads. Why don’t you come back to your own thread and make a response or two?


184 posted on 03/01/2015 8:05:31 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: dead and gone
Yeah?

Just for the record,

I do post often.

I'm not a troll.

But way back when, leftists were registering FReeper screen names at DU only to post outrageous lies and political stances so that anyone googling that FReeper would get a very warped impression of them.

To prevent that from happening to me, I got my very own DU account, went over there, made a few posts, made no secret of my FR affiliation, laughed t a few of their jokes.

Did they ban me?

Noooooooooo!

Indeed they seemed to like me.

I feel so dirty.

185 posted on 03/01/2015 8:08:35 AM PST by null and void (As always, keeping a low profile with anything you do is to your advantage.)
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To: Enlightened1

Anyone Enlightened you yet as to how to find posting history?


186 posted on 03/01/2015 8:10:09 AM PST by deport
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To: Enlightened1

Welcome to FreeRepublic.


187 posted on 03/01/2015 8:20:02 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Gargantua

Just a quick question for you: Do you remember tu-tu? They had a swimming pool, and they thought it couldn’t happen here. They knew it couldn’t happen here. They were so sure it couldn’t happen here.


188 posted on 03/01/2015 8:26:56 AM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: shibumi

Or A+Bert.


189 posted on 03/01/2015 8:28:07 AM PST by rabidralph
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To: dead and gone

That’s understandable given that you are dead and gone, but your vote continues on.


190 posted on 03/01/2015 8:29:15 AM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: GOPJ

Lets talk about ducks.

191 posted on 03/01/2015 8:49:39 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Enlightened1
Hijacked Freeper Accounts

They're everywhere.

192 posted on 03/01/2015 9:02:56 AM PST by McGruff (Maybe my comments were too nuanced for you)
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To: Enlightened1

Have you thought of the possibility that these folks deliberately took time off from FR?

Some quit posting because they got butthurt when they posted something stupid and were called out on it.

Some quit posting because they were called the aholes they were for being extremely crude and rude towards others here on FR.

Some quit posting because they challenged JR and then went to other so-called “moderate” sites where about all they did was complain about FR.

Some folks quit posting due to the abrasive and confrontational nature of some FReepers, crossing the boundary of good etiquette and courtesy.

Some go dormant because something in their lives has become more important than sitting on an on-line forum.

There are many reasons why...I even took over a year off from posting because I really needed to...a reset.


193 posted on 03/01/2015 9:06:08 AM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: arthurus
no posts in years...

Don't let that be a measure of maliciousness.
I've dropped off for years and long extended periods of time.

But I'm still me ... loving Liberty.

194 posted on 03/01/2015 9:11:23 AM PST by fone (<-- the original)
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To: Enlightened1

3’ 6” , 265 lbs., and live under a bridge....


195 posted on 03/01/2015 9:22:12 AM PST by dakine
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To: left that other site

What if there ARE sleeper trolls? Most of us will not be influenced by them. Plus FR is not big enough to be enough of an influence* in any national election. Who are we kidding?? Many times, we can’t all agree on candidates, and we are an echo chamber about the great constitutional conservatives but can’t make a DENT in national voting.

In here, I am often fooled that we have a chance.

I don’t see the need or the usefulness of sleeper libs coming in here. Waste of time for them and us.

*we may have kept kerry out of the White House - we provided a great platform for the Swift Boat Vets. But he’s in there now anyway...


196 posted on 03/01/2015 9:35:07 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

197 posted on 03/01/2015 9:45:13 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: SZonian

I’m not a troll.
I sometimes have web access, sometimes not.
I have no web on laptop only cell phone.
I have remarks to make, sometimes not.
I have $$ sometimes, sometimes not.
I am not a troll.
Even I was, I would only troll on the left.


198 posted on 03/01/2015 10:00:04 AM PST by BigIsleGal (Wake Me Up When the Illucid Wears Off)
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To: JimRed
I do not know. All I can say, as someone who reads a great deal and has edited and written…writers have voices the way that people have faces. Do you know how you recognize a face? We do, but we don't know how we do it.

And the little signal goes off in my head, "Phony"--goes off on a regular basis here on FR. Then I pass the cursor over the sign-up date. Sometimes it's a newbie, an easy score. But often the sign-up is 1998! Getting close to twenty years.

Sometimes you can find a tag-team on a thread, but I don't kick up a fuss because I'm already accused of paranoia. But when you suspect a shill poster, go through the whole thread and compare sign-up dates. You'll find the cheering squad has the same date.

There are a BUNCH from the fall of 2004!

199 posted on 03/01/2015 10:01:33 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: Yaelle

I think shills come in to float trial balloons, or to create a sense of momentum where none exists. And I believe that RINOS are likely the worst offenders, though I believe they may be actually paid by Media Matters.


200 posted on 03/01/2015 10:04:51 AM PST by Mamzelle
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