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Comment by hypfer

5 hours ago

That letter reads almost identical to internet hate comments. Wild. I guess the tactics have always been the same then.

At least now we have LLMs that can produce this kind of stuff at human-overwhelming rates, so that is progress.

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williamdclt  5 hours ago

> That letter reads almost identical to internet hate comments

the corners of the internet that you frequent have much more eloquent haters than the ones I'm used to

  • ranger_danger  5 hours ago

    Ironically this is quite common on 4chan, although so are many other much more childish things, but there is an occasional flash of someone with real knowledge using it to be a clever asshole.

    I'm convinced the only reason crimeflare continues to platform them is that it must be some kind of three letter honeypot.

    • thinkingemote  3 hours ago

      >honeypot

      They explicitly say they proactively work with LEOs to report any and all things illegal. I wouldn't be surprised if they had members of staff directly employed by some agencies, they wouldn't be opposed to it. They do not wait for a court order or subpoena, they will happily give them data and will not wait to be asked.

      Their range of acceptable content is wider than other cleaner platforms which gives an impression of anarchy and freedom and anonymity, but actually those other more censored and speech restricted platforms may actually be more safer, private and free from government and legal interference!

  • hypfer  5 hours ago

    HN is one of those places, actually.

    There are quite a few covert psychopaths on here that happily twist knives and hurt people.

    It's just hidden under layers and layers of indirection, jargon and plausible deniability. Not unlike your standard boardroom I guess.

somenameforme  4 hours ago

I think it's more that social standards of acceptability tend to continually degrade. There was a time when calling someone a scoundrel or a rascal was one of the most vile insults imaginable, potentially worth fighting to the death over, and I mean that completely literally.

I used the word 'degrade' earlier and I'm not sure fighting to the death over rascal is a higher state of enlightenment, but I do think words should have meaning, and now they mostly no longer do because everything is always hyperbolized to the most ridiculous degree.

So if the FBI was doing something akin in modern times they'd probably weaponize their knowledge by framing him as a viable rapist or other sort of sexual predator as opposed to a simple womanizer.

timmmmmmay  5 hours ago

the modern internet has given everyone a higher level of immunity to this kind of thing now that it's in the background everywhere at all times; the FBI would need to step up their game today

  • cowlevel  4 hours ago

    Or different tactics entirely. I've been getting ads recently saying "it's Qatar's fault". I don't understand at all what is supposed to be Qatar's fault, and I'm sure they can't say it in the ads because then it would be a lie and they could get sued, but I'm sure their target audience knows exactly what Qatar supposedly did.