What does it cost to set up a twitter account and when you see a blog post you dislike and want to discredit, to “twitter” it preemptively? When other people see that only a weird porn site or ‘hate’ site has twittered your post, they back off, even though they might like your content and even though your content might be neither racist nor pornographic.

I’ve noticed this happens whenever I post something positive about the orthodox church. Posts on alternative spirituality don’t attract this kind of negative attention.

Anyway, I’ve noticed a couple of weird things like this on Twitter and I’ve noticed that Digg can be manipulated too.

So much for the view that the ‘Net will carry all before it. They said that about TV when it came on the scene. And look where that got us.