PARLIAMENT House in Canberra has started a formal investigation into pro-Labor political comments posted online under fake names.
Parliament investigates web fraud
Parliament House has launched an inquiry into political fraudsters who posted on the Colac Herald website.
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The Liberal Party has a recent history of playing dirty politics. Take for example, the Godwin Grech affair and Mal Brough’s bizarre involvement in the Peter Slipper saga, so one could see Liberal back room boys pretending to be Labor stooges and posting letters critical of the Liberal Party. Deliberately leaking the fake letters and attributing them to Labor would have the desired effect of making people sceptical of letters criticising Liberal policy.
I’m not claiming this is what actually happened but given the Lib’s history it wouldn’t surprise me particularly as Corangamite is on a knife’s edge.
“blogs”, surely that should have said user comments on the Colac Herald’s “blogs”.
As to the IP Address leading to the computer, that’s unlikely unless they have logged all network traffic through the gateway. The IP Address Colac Herald has would only lead to the gateway/router, not beyond.
Seems there’s a general lack of knowledge here, about the subject 😉 But is good to see Colac Herald has made it that commenters need to sign into their WordPress site. It stops the trivial attacks. Of course, it won’t stop anyone going and getting a handful of free gmail or Hotmail accounts etc, nor in it’s current form will it stop people using anomymizer services to hide their IP Addresses as well.
The real solution lays not in censorship, but in promoting and encouraging meaningful debate. The so called conversation hijacking posts did nothing of the sort: it was only the Colac herald that sensationalized them. Any rational person would skim past them as being typical pro/anti we get in any discussion.
The focus needs to be on the hard questions, the questions that Colac Herald has still failed to ask, the question that users have asked in comments, the questions political nominated board members of CAH, like Chris Smith who has posted here, have failed to even try to answer.
We should be focusing on the real issues, not chasing irrelevant shadows. Why not ask the real questions of the people that are meant to represent us ? Why not ask Chris Smith why he posts on Colac Herald repeatedly with his political rhetoric, yet has dodged answering any questions put to him about the boards performance ???
Colac Herald: stop playing politics with people’s lives !!!