I’m sure there are leftist trolls that do nothing but attack Conservatives in the US. They are free to do so, but the ethical problem is that they are PAID to do so (funded by Soros etal...), and of course they do not disclose this.
On the Corporate side, we have trolls who do nothing but represent Apple on FreeRepublic itself, and others who do the same for Microsoft and Google. I again have no problem with that, as long as they disclose that they are paid to do so.
Pssst Obama’s own administration was paying for such propagandizing of Obamacare.
Oh yeah, I believe they took this page out of the Russian’s playbook (or maybe they invented this), because I just see these trolls at the news site commentaries, relentless, same talking points, it’s as if posting on the comments is the only thing they do in life! I accused one commentator of being a Soros-paid groupie, and never responded. I have no doubt.
Former Democrat operator (still a Democrat, just no longer directly involved) I got to be good friends confirmed that yes, the left trolls the internet with scores of paid “commenters.”
There are plenty of Tech zealots that support Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, Linux, etc. FOR free.
I remember some of the Microsoft trolls. They were laughably incompetent, and were obvious plants. But, we had fun exposing them.
I hope Microsoft didn’t actually pay them. If so, they were ripped off.
I doubt Apple is paying trolls. They don’t have to, there are plenty of fanboys.