Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
Comment on Mel’s DUI, get racist spam in response!
The following was captured by the default comment filter that comes with Blogsome’s version of WordPress (Emphasis mine. Note also that each "article" in the spam had a link. I have removed these to keep their hit counter from spinning. Worse, the same spam was received not just once, but TWICE!):
Report: Mel Gibson’s DUI - Went on "Anti-Semetic" Tirade! (3620 views)Chicago - Skinhead Leader Murdered (1924 views)So what would you do if you fell in love with a non-white…. (1168 views)BNP spokesman praises Israel, insults WNs (1154 views)Your thoughts on Asians? (959 views)BREAKING: 7 Israeli Soldiers Killed In Attack (927 views)Nationalism and Israel (879 views)Stormfront Radio - All New (672 views)Illegals Fleeing Because Los Angeles is too much like Mexico! (628 views)WWIII : Scenarios And Analysis Of Development Of The Coming War (599 views)
And yes, the emphasis is important. Stormfront is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group. Their big thing is hating Blacks and Jews, in addition to practicing standard right-wing fare: bloviating against "political correctness," taxes, abortion, gays, regulation of private enterprise - the whole nine yards.
So why bother lil’ ol’ me, a (VERY) small potatoes "librul" blogger with comment spam? Well, I suspect that they got their hands on one of those nifty comment spam bots, programmed it to run a Google blog search for something along the lines of "Mel Gibson DUI anti-semitic" and barf the above contents into the comments section of every blog it comes across. Considering that most computers these days can do something on the order of a billion operations per second (at a minimum), even if my blog were hit number 500,000,000,000 on just such a search, it probably wouldn’t take more than a few minutes go get around to my blog.
It just goes to show that the Internets are a double-edged sword.
