[Bob434]

[[How do you know I’m not a ‘bot? Do you know I’m not a ‘bot?]]

The real question is, do i care if someone is a bot or not? Nope- I’m secure enough in my beliefs and opinions that what someone on the Internet says isn’t going to affect me one way or the other- some foreign fake site is NOT going to convince me republicans are evil and democrats are saints- I’ve seen evidence to the contrary all my life- only gullible people are going to be too insecure in their beliefs that they will fall for such nonsense-

Liberals don’t want ‘fake sites’ because they don’t want people question liberal ideology- ever- so they are attempting to ‘crack down on dangerous fake sites’- and i ask “What is dangerous about them?” Nothing- We’re inundated with fake stuff all the time- and we survive as a people just fine-

So what if someone is a bot? Really, what’s the problem?

[arthurus]

Liberals also define sites presenting opposing views as “fake.”

[fr_freak]

The real question is, do i care if someone is a bot or not? Nope- I’m secure enough in my beliefs and opinions that what someone on the Internet says isn’t going to affect me one way or the other...

The issue at hand in this article has nothing to do with some AI bot pretending to be a person so they can hold a conversation. It deals with bots used to simulate real traffic in order to generate web site hits, video views, web searches, etc. as a means of cheating advertisers out of money. You would not interact with these type of bots, but they could affect "trends" so that the type of content promoted to everyone when they visit, say, Youtube, would be altered by these fake hits.

[Right Brigade]

“So what if someone is a bot? Really, what’s the problem?”

I’m not a Bot but I play one on the internet.