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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: 50mm
This is the guy that Moby took his gun safety lessons from...


261 posted on 03/01/2015 4:06:30 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: Enlightened1

Jeez..now it’s not even safe to lurk in the background..


262 posted on 03/01/2015 4:07:36 PM PST by MrIndi
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To: Enlightened1; ansel12; humblegunner; 50mm; TheOldLady; Old Sarge; darkwing104; Jet Jaguar; ...
So it boils down to this, Mr. Enlightened1:

Most of us here know ansel12.
Sometimes we agree with him, sometimes not.
But he's a good regular poster on FR, and a bona fide Conservative.

You, on the other hand are a relative n00bie, with a trollish posting history and a demonstrated inability to read other FReeper's histories.

So it kinda boils down to this:


263 posted on 03/01/2015 4:43:39 PM PST by shibumi ("Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way")
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To: Awgie

I’m sure you’ve heard of the “unnngh” thread. It’s comingup on 4,000 posts. Just as funny as this thread.

If you have not heard of it, here it is.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1235991/posts


264 posted on 03/01/2015 5:42:29 PM PST by Redcitizen
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To: Explorer89

Was your sister STUNED??


265 posted on 03/01/2015 5:53:47 PM PST by Chong
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To: 50mm
Now let's be

about this.

266 posted on 03/01/2015 6:43:11 PM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

LOL


267 posted on 03/01/2015 6:43:37 PM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: Enlightened1

I can’t even find one of my son’s account. He signed up in 2004 I believe but has never made a single comment. He reads F.R. fairly regularly but says he won’t comment because he types too slowly.

His screen name is “ironman73”. (without the quotation marks).


268 posted on 03/01/2015 8:13:06 PM PST by Graybeard58
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To: Salamander

I’m always classy.


269 posted on 03/01/2015 8:23:42 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Ragnarok" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L5nD7-qsEw)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
"Sometimes I even hijack my own account."

I had heard that about you...

...I guess I just didn't want to believe it!

8^)

270 posted on 03/01/2015 9:04:59 PM PST by Gargantua ("...fee tine a mady..." ;^)
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To: OldMissileer
"This is my 3rd comment since 2010."

We've got 'im! That's just what someone who has posted four times would say!

271 posted on 03/01/2015 9:08:59 PM PST by Gargantua ("...fee tine a mady..." ;^)
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To: Robert DeLong
Good God, man—what have I done?! I went waaay over the line there, and I just don't know what got into me.

Maybe it was those flapjacks from St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast... where I stole the margerine. Riding my pygmy pony along the boredom line with my Zircon encrusted tweezers.

272 posted on 03/01/2015 9:13:18 PM PST by Gargantua ("...fee tine a mady..." ;^)
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To: Gargantua

Just let us know when you move to Montana, soon.


273 posted on 03/01/2015 9:28:35 PM PST by glock rocks (Whenever I find myself in a conundrum, I ask myself: What would Elvis do?)
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To: Slings and Arrows

And I’m green-eyed.

We should start a religion.

/Morrison


274 posted on 03/01/2015 11:47:40 PM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: Salamander

I think that David Icke has the lizard thing pretty much nailed down.


275 posted on 03/02/2015 12:09:08 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Ragnarok" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L5nD7-qsEw)
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To: Salamander

“Or plan a murder.”


276 posted on 03/02/2015 12:10:46 AM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: Aleya2Fairlie

Well, I don’t really care. I have been flamed, threatened to be “zotted” dozens of times for disagreements, personally attacked, called a liberal commie, told to leave and never come back. I never report anyone, perhaps I did once. Doesn’t bother me.

Point is, not everyone here is going to agree with everyone else. If we did, it wouldn’t be a healthy website. As for the whole free speech thing on forums, it’s kinda like this: lots of people become offended over words, swear words, etc. Keeping the dialogue clean, and wholesome is taking the high ground. Which people admire. There are sites out there that you can basically say anything you want. I’ve even seen a website where racists are allowed to spout the most evil garbage and hateful things you have ever seen towards our dark skinned brethren. Disgusting, no one wants to go to places like that. It was the most hateful website I have ever seen. I don’t mean to compare it to FR. However, dialogue deteriorating into unintelligible hate rants is not productive, and turns a lot of people off to your cause. There’s literally no reason for it. But bans for opinions on GOP([e]whatever) candidates I do disagree with.

Anyways, you’re dead spot on for “vanity” posts like this. I go a few months just lurking every once in awhile, then something breaks and I’m back discussing.

If the author of this post cannot pony up names, posts, dates, etc. Then the post should be deleted. Or be marked as a general warning to “watch your six” around here, that there likely (confirmed) are paid trolls, shills, and malcontents here to spread discourse. Divide and conquer. Standard covert psy-ops. It’s naive to think that there aren’t, as FR has helped break some big scandals in recent American history. There are also important conservatives, liberals, commies, capitalists, etc. Watching, reading, and I suspect, even engaging freepers on a daily basis. So seriously, watch your six.


277 posted on 03/02/2015 6:19:47 AM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Gargantua
I'll tell you what you've done, you have exposed me to one of his songs I never heard before. With three little words: Knirps... for moisture, I was compelled to turn to google to determine what the (he double hockey stick) they meant. While I assumed it referenced lyrics by Frank I wasn't sure. The alternative was your account had been hijacked (Just to keep on topic of the original thread!!!). When I found the song the lyrics were referenced in, Penguin in Bondage, I naturally had to give it a listen. That in turn sent me to YouTube. I got stuck there listening to Frank Zappa for hours. Spending all that time listening to Zappa, then caused my wife to make snide remarks about the amount of time I was spending on the internet. LOL. That in a nutshell is what you did. Thank you BTW. It was enjoyable.

I have come to the conclusion that a new music genre should be included, as the Zappa genre. As his music does not really fit nicely into any of the genres currently defined. Since his music seems to contain what may sound like a certain genre at the beginning, and then evolving into yet another. That other may not even be suitable for any of the genres currently defined. That's what makes him interesting to me, and from what I gather, so many others.

278 posted on 03/02/2015 8:09:56 AM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: FreedomStar3028; Enlightened1

Enlightened1 is a retread troll using a sleeper account, that has at least two vanity threads that he will not return to to face his provacations.

He is one of the Paul nuts who signed up for a dormant account, and then activated it about a year later.

Enlightened1 why won’t you return to these vanity threads of yours where you were accusing long time freepers of being sleeper accounts?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3262821/posts?page=249#249

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3262591/posts?page=34#34


279 posted on 03/02/2015 8:12:33 AM PST by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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To: left that other site

Hey, you deserved it, as it was very creative indeed. I laughed so hard I just knew it had to end right there. It was complete, and thus finished. Leaving me completely finished!!!!


280 posted on 03/02/2015 8:12:48 AM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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