Bullies, Liars and Impostors: How Facebook and Go Daddy Shield Scott Walker's Online Guerillas

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AlterNet / By Adele M. Stan and Steven Rosenfeld

Bullies, Liars and Impostors: How Facebook and Go Daddy Shield Scott Walker's Online Guerillas
A spate of online disinformation, bullying and outright calls for the destruction of recall petitions raise the specter of fraud in the Wisconsin recall petition drive.

December 4, 2011 |


In Wisconsin, as in states around the nation, Republican lawmakers claim to be concerned with the integrity of the voting process and with fighting fraud. At least that 's the rationale for the passage of a new voter ID law passed this spring.

But as hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites seek a recall election of Gov. Scott Walker, a spate of online disinformation, bullying and outright calls for the destruction of recall petitions by anonymous Web entities, possibly administered from out of state, raise a question: Who are the real impostors and fraudsters in Wisconsin's elections?

The answer: We may never know, thanks to the identity protection provided these potential felons by social media giant Facebook and the Web domain purveyor, Go Daddy.

Faking an Occupy Site

It happened in the blink of an eye. On a Sunday night, AlterNet learned from a tipster of a Web site, posing as the online presence of Occupy Madison, that featured a headline claiming that all of the 540,000 signatures required by petitioners for a special recall election of the governor had been collected. This, of course, was a lie. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/media/153306/bullies%2C_liars_and_impostors%3A_how_facebook_and_go_daddy_shield_scott_walker%27s_online_guerillas/

[Magoo48]

1. This Walker regime really is a nasty bit of work.

[Scuba]

2. K&R Thanks for posting. n/t

[pghtytfan]

3. A little worried

about Facebook not having a viable competitor.