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Astroturfing has been the favorite MO of harmful industries like tobacco, oil, and defense for a long time now.

It's sad that this has become so normal, and that they can pressure opponents into silence. I'm wondering if we'll ever get rid of this.

Remove defense from that list, they are the good guys now. I see you already omitted pharmaceutical industry so you're at least almost up to date

Yeah, thought of pharma afterwards. But defense is most definitely on the list, even though the astroturfing looks more like manufacturing consent.