[governance] Astroturfing (was Re: ALAC and NCUC)

[Norbert Bollow]

Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com> wrote:

> It strikes me that we should not require natural persons to jump through 
> burning hoops of identification unless we make all "stakeholders" 
> similarly demonstrate that they actually represent the entities that 
> they claim to represent and demonstrate that those entities are real.

Astroturfing is a real problem, which needs to be addressed somehow.

If false claims of representation of businesses (or other entities)
are or become problems, then those problems need to be addressed as
well.

Greetings,
Norbert.


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Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>                    http://Norbert.ch
President of the Swiss Internet User Group SIUG  http://SIUG.ch
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