tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post5207906769466705436..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: There's No Fool Like An Orange Fool Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-16749043606155261492017-07-07T10:03:40.484-04:002017-07-07T10:03:40.484-04:00I've noticed when I get a lot of hits on my Go...I've noticed when I get a lot of hits on my Google-provided site counter, the largest number seem to come from Russia. This will last several days, then fade.<br /><br />It's hardly huge; I don't attract that much attention, but it's multiples higher than I normally get, so it's large relative to expectations. I can't imagine what I write is regularly so interesting to the average Russian, frankly. For that matter, what's important to Russian hackers; but maybe they are gathering information from around the web.<br /><br />And it is well known (but seldom acknowledged) that Russian hackers (government employees, too) regularly invent information to insert into e-mail caches that are released through Wikileaks and others, as well as invent "fake news" that gets disseminated as true.<br /><br />So your speculation wouldn't surprise me in the least. You're probably right, IOW.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-58670198681267930382017-07-07T08:47:43.634-04:002017-07-07T08:47:43.634-04:00Over night, thinking about this, I wonder if it mi...Over night, thinking about this, I wonder if it might have something to do with paid trolls for whom English isn't their first language. Over at Media Matters a lot of their trolls use syntax that's definitely not standard English. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-71491580926086315482017-07-06T22:49:06.327-04:002017-07-06T22:49:06.327-04:00Dealing with people who have the vocabulary of Tru...Dealing with people who have the vocabulary of Trump.<br /><br />The internet is dumbing us down as the voices of ignorance drown out the voices of insight and knowledge.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.com