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Former Russian Troll Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda "Factory"
An anonymous reader writes: Lyudmila Savchuk, a former Russian internet "troll" has been awarded one rouble ($0.01) in damages after she sued her ex-employer claiming it was a propaganda "factory". A Russian court ordered the secretive agency to pay her symbolic damages. Savchuk claims that she and her co-workers at Internet Research were paid to flood websites with pro-Putin commentary. The BBC reports: "Ms Savchuk said she was happy with the result because she had succeeded in exposing the work of Russia's internet 'trolls'. Russian media quoted a spokesman for Internet Research denying the accusations. The Kremlin says it has no links to Internet Research's operations. Since leaving the agency, Ms Savchuk has been organizing a public movement against online trolling."
She gave her two cents and only got one in return.
Paying people to spread propaganda is not a new concept.
This is common in politics and other industries; and has been for some time now.
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.
I'm impressed she's still alive. IMO, trolling causes me to question the message giver, and get my content from another web site.
You would think that anyone paid to spread propaganda would know that they are doing it and be a willing participant.
Comrade Putin is brave, honorable, and handsome.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Silence is a state of mime.
Obviously, the CIA has deemed it non-credible to blame her assassination on Putin, so she's still alive ;)
A lot of people get paid for propaganda, we have a junkie here who got paid 1 million $$$ by Soros to deface CCCP age monuments. Our local forums and news comment sections are full of paid pro-western cheerleaders.
When did the definition of "trolling" change? Trolling means that you post something solely to bait a response from someone. For example posting "There is no God" in a forum full of Catholics or "Obama is awesome" in a KKK forum. What they are talking about here is spreading propaganda.
Thank god we don't have any propaganda factories here in the U S of A.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Do Russian trolls have another, slightly smaller Russian troll inside them?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
She now works for Organizing For America.
Thank you for your struggle. Those who were silenced would be proud.
Someone will shoot her while she is out walking with her boyfriend in the snow. It will be ruled a horrible crime, and the parties involved will be moved somewhere less public where they will be handed envelopes filled with money.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Troll for pointing out what happened to another critic of Putin?
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/27/...
Or are we to believe that Putin's ordering of a criminal investigation will really find the people who did it who were widely believed to be acting on Putin's orders?
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Please, if you knew anything about Russian politics, you'd know how Nemtsov as "leading Putin critic" is a Western fabrication. He was an irrelevant has-been, who had no seats in the Duma, and whose coalition represented 1-2% of the population on a good day. His coalition, by the way, only had that level of support because it wasn't really his coalition, but Eduard Limonov, then leader of the New Bolshevik Party, 's coalition, which also included the Vanguard of Red Youths. "The Other Russia" was fringe even among the fringe.
Western media has essentially branded the fringe and borderline dissidents as "opposition leaders". The real opposition leaders are Zyuganov (CPRF), Mironov (AJR) and Zhirinovsky (LDPR) who together, control 47% of the Duma.
Nemtsov, as well as a number of people associated with TOR have had ties to the oligarchs/criminals Khordikovsky ans Berezovsk, not to mention that Nemstov has made himself more than few enemies back in the day, as Putin's predecessor, as the deputy prime minister who oversaw and facilitated the raping of the country's wealth by the oligarchs.
In essence, he was roughly the Lyndon Larrouche of Russian politics.
But all of this is falling on deaf ears, no doubt you also believe Russia has a single-party system, and that the people of Donbass are bombing themselves, and that Berezovsky and Khordikovsky are good people.
Yeah, yeah, Russian troll blah blah paid shill.. or you know, you could look this shit up.
This here is one of the Russian trolls. It is all a western conspiracy to devalue Russian principles!
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Ironically, recent US actions have done far more for pro-Putin suppor sentiment than any of his propaganda efforts.
TFS doesn't say exactly what she was suing over. TFA says she "sued the secretive company for alleged moral damages, non-payment of wages and for failing to give workers proper contracts".
So, I'm puzzled. If she was due wages, she should have gotten more than one rouble. I'm not sure of the compensation for failing to give proper contracts; it sounds like it's something akin to violating an oral contract.
What are moral damages? A quick Google doesn't turn up much; it sounds like a legal concept not used in the US. Can anybody enlighten me?
But KPRF and LDPR are not pro-western yes men, so they don't count!
I guess you need to go down to parties with zero popular support to find one that aligns with US dreams for russia.
It's funny they never report that batshit-insane Zhironovsky*, has 12 times the support, and communists have 20x. That's how unelectable these people the US roots for are.
*some selected examples:
- expressed a desire to reunite countries of the ex-Soviet "near abroad" with Russia to within the Russia's borders of 1900 (including Finland and Poland).
- advocated forcibly retaking Alaska from the United States (which would then become "a great place to put the Ukrainians")
- Zhirinovsky, who encourages separatism within the Russian minority in the Baltic countries,[17] endorsed the forcible re-occupation of these countries and said nuclear waste should be dumped there.[31][32]
- advocated hitting some Chechen villages with tactical nuclear weapons.
There's simply too much great comedy this guy comes up with.
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