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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: eastforker

I have flirted here a few times. The girls I flirted with (2 I met in person, 1 I talked to on the phone) are no longer here, but I still am.


61 posted on 03/01/2015 4:43:09 AM PST by real saxophonist (Spam, Spam, Spam, Bacon, and Spam. Extra Bacon.)
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To: Enlightened1
Ash Alert!

Ash Alert!

Calling Don Morgan

Ash Alert!

62 posted on 03/01/2015 4:44:11 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims")
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To: real saxophonist

Howlin doesn’t count.


63 posted on 03/01/2015 4:44:42 AM PST by Tench_Coxe (For every Allende, there is a Pinochet)
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To: shibumi

Sitting here laughing!


64 posted on 03/01/2015 4:46:29 AM PST by wintertime
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To: Enlightened1
What you say??!

I only post when I've been drinking!

65 posted on 03/01/2015 4:47:48 AM PST by eldoradude (It doesn't matter how many it takes, the lightbulb has already been stolen.)
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To: real saxophonist

We lose more female FReepers that way.


66 posted on 03/01/2015 4:48:13 AM PST by BykrBayb (Where there is life, there is hope. - Terri Schiavo ~ Þ)
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To: eastforker

Your post make me smirk.


67 posted on 03/01/2015 4:48:18 AM PST by folkquest (I plan on being cranky for the next 4 years. Hope to crack a political smile at the midterms!)
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To: knarf
Its not me....I just like to lurk... :)
Nor me ... I'm just a jerk.
And how about those that just like to flirt.
They just might end up getting hurt.
Especially if they lift that skirt.

(bridge)
Wellll .. I don't know but I've been told.
Eskimo kittens are mighty cold.
Some are young, some are old.
But filled kittens have no soul.

It may be me, for I am the slime.
Next in line.
Provide your rhyme.
Be it subtle or sublime.

(bridge)
Wellll .. I don't know but I've been told.
Eskimo kittens are mighty cold.
Some are young, some are old.
But filled kittens have no soul.

Wrap it up like a ball of twine.
Providing it at any time.
Collecting from yours and mine.
The key of course is make it rhyme.

68 posted on 03/01/2015 4:48:46 AM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Timber Rattler

Now that I am not posting as often the government school defenders have mostly disappeared.


69 posted on 03/01/2015 4:49:49 AM PST by wintertime
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To: McGruff
Free Republic has always had its share of political trolls since it started. Eschoir is one infamous historical example.
We have had the Paulites, Rovians, and that span of Crevo madness about 10 years ago that just got out of hand (probably had a good number of crypto-Libs intentionally out to make this site look bad-wouldn't be surprised if they had some sock puppets pretending to be creationists just to generate thread after thread of crap).
Several posters way back were outed as being campaign operatives, while some were very up front about who they were (I'm thinking folks like Tony Snow R.I.P. and some others).

What I watch out for now as garbage are the pure candidate advocacy type posts and those that blame "conservatives for every Republican loss because they stayed home or didn't vote for "X"".

70 posted on 03/01/2015 4:53:37 AM PST by Tench_Coxe (For every Allende, there is a Pinochet)
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

Please explain.


71 posted on 03/01/2015 4:56:58 AM PST by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: Fai Mao

Well, sarcasm used to be “fun”’ but with the bending of all rules i government, politics and life, sarcasm and fact are nearly the same, so you can’t see the line between the clearly anymore. It is much easier today to mistake sarcasm for fact and react accordingly. Hat tip to the folks that use the /s. ...it is a signal to me that I can laugh instead of attack. We need that little symbol of clarification in these days of bending rules, gender and morality.


72 posted on 03/01/2015 5:04:41 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ($$$$$ Don't Defund the Government...Defund Obama and his illegal policies $$$$$)
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To: Enlightened1
Great catch, thanks for letting us know.

Just for the record, I am SkyPilot.


73 posted on 03/01/2015 5:09:46 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Enlightened1

No offense, but if you’re not going to tell us what you’re talking about, or what posts these formerly inactive accounts have said that caught your attention, then shut up and go away. You’re no help. It’s like you’re crying “FIRE” but won’t tell us when or where.


74 posted on 03/01/2015 5:12:11 AM PST by Shimmer1 ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: icwhatudo
After 17 years he caught me! The pay is not great but the temp in the boiler room is great in winter.

*chuckle*

Yeah, I'm with ya ... lol ... remember, we traded shifts next week. And put back that copy of the communist manifesto in the restroom.

75 posted on 03/01/2015 5:13:04 AM PST by fone (<-- - a.k.a. the nocturnal sleeper (and I snore))
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To: Enlightened1
The other two Freepers have no posts for 7 years and 3 years

Maybe they were in prison or in a coma......

Or maybe they had amnesia and forgot they were members here.....

76 posted on 03/01/2015 5:13:51 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Uncle Sy: "Beavers are like Ninjas, they only come out at night and they're hard to find")
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To: fone

What made it even funnier was that he was just a noob (class of 99)


77 posted on 03/01/2015 5:14:15 AM PST by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: icwhatudo

Well, he could have been class of 98. I was, but there was that server thing that required about a 1/3 or so of Freepers to re-register in ‘99.


78 posted on 03/01/2015 5:16:17 AM PST by Tench_Coxe (For every Allende, there is a Pinochet)
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To: Robert DeLong
Uhhhh .. I think we should all step away from the computer and get ready for church ..

/8^)

Much fun bein' a FReeper.

79 posted on 03/01/2015 5:16:59 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

How many will admit to having FreeRepublic widows ?


80 posted on 03/01/2015 5:18:19 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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