Can I take it, then, that you like the idea of federal contractors spending taxpayer dollars on semi-automated sockpuppets in order to spam propaganda on their behalf, as long as it's not liberal propaganda?
No, I definitely don't like the idea of a government spending taxpayer money on any kind of domestic brainwashing operations, high-tech or traditional-media.
Can you expand on your comment to explain how it makes any sense?
Many people who know me consider me to be "left" but it makes sense to me. The Internet is just a medium. It doesn't favor any particular viewpoint. There's this idea from summer movies that the "good guys" are always hip with the new tools. That's not true. If anything, it does tend to be the underdogs or insurgents that are the early adopters, but this status has nothing to do with "good/bad" or with any particular political affiliation.
Unfortunately, the "explanation" feature is not built into the sockpuppet software yet, it is still in alpha, but I am sure in a 6-9 month period you will be able to get some kind of vague generic explanation.
I can hardly wait until the CAPTCHA is replaced by the Voight-Kampff test.
Would you make the same comment when they turn and use their "toys" against you?