In any Democracy, PR firms posing as individuals, would be illegal. Businesses taking money, to alter other peoples comments, to favor only their Corporate View, is Fascism in Operation.
In the USA, this is not only legal it is called 'good business'. In operation this Capitalism is simply a white washed word for Fascism. Take a look. "all liberal media links removed". Sock Puppet sites, where the individual is working FOR MONEY for a Corporation, to alter the views and information available to all people. This isn't a debate or free speech,_this is the destruction of all free speech and the enforcement of only the Corporations point of view_. And there are DOZENS of PR agencies whose sole business is to do just this. Infiltrate web sites, news media, and social programs. And the Pentagon has announced a "Social program' that apparently, will do this faster and cheaper then the Far Right people who are presently being paid for it, what irony, may they join the ranks of the unemployed and those in foreclosure and preach their Capitalism there, in the lines for those that need Socialism. Scott Koch Industries Employs PR Firm To Airbrush Wikipedia, Gets Banned For Unethical ‘Sock Puppets’ <http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/09/koch-wikipedia-sock-puppet/> Last year, Koch Industries began employing New Media Strategies (NMS), an Internet PR firm that specializes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Media_Strategies> in “word-of-mouth marketing” for major corporations including Coca-Cola, Burger King, AT&T, Dodge and Ford. It appears that, ever since the NMS contract was inked with Koch, an NMS employee began editing the Wikipedia page for “Charles Koch,” “David Koch,” “Political activities of the Koch family,” and “The Science of Success” (a book written by Charles). Under the moniker of “MBMAdmirer,” NMS employees edited Wikipedia articles to distance <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:David_H._Koch&diff=prev&oldid=411170214> the Koch family from the Tea Party movement, to provide baseless <http://toolserver.org/%7Ebetacommand/UserCompare/MBMadmirer.html> comparisons between Koch and conspiracy theories <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/MBMadmirer/Archive> surrounding George Soros, and to generally delete citations to liberal news outlets. After administrators flagged the MBMAdmirer account as a “sock puppet” — one of many fake accounts used to manipulate new media sites — a subsequent sock puppet investigation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/MBMadmirer/Archive> found that MBMAdmirer is connected to a number of dummy accounts and ones owned by NMS employee! s like Jeff Taylor <http://nms.com/about/our-team/Jeff-Taylor>. Soren Dayton, a GOP operative and executive at New Media Strategies, is reported <http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=48AFDC2A-E10F-4DC3-A8A9-15DBEBA3F8F2> to be the contact for Koch Industries at NMS. Reached by phone yesterday by ThinkProgress, Dayton exclaimed, “I’m not going to talk about this, thanks,” before hanging up. Lyndsey Medsker, a senior account director for NMS, spoke to ThinkProgress today. She explained that NMS also maintains the Koch Industries Twitter page, Facebook page, and has an active team working on promoting Koch Industries in the comment section of blogs and news websites. As ThinkProgress has reported <http://www.thinkprogress.org/2011/03/03/bloggers-kneel-to-koch/>, the billionaire Koch brothers maintain contracts with over a dozen public relation firms and lobbying firms. Pushing back again recent scrutiny, the brothers have also relied <http://www.thinkprogress.org/2011/03/03/bloggers-kneel-to-koch/> on a conservative media infrastructure owned by the Koch brothers or closely linked to them by way of their donor conferences <http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/23/koch-meeting-journalists/>. We have documented how the Koch message machine has targeted <http://www.thinkprogress.org/2011/03/03/bloggers-kneel-to-koch/> ThinkProgre! ss and even placed <http://www.thinkprogress.org/2011/03/03/bloggers-kneel-to-koch/> hit-pieces against a New Yorker journalist investigated the Kochs. 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