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Big companies cultivate the mindshare of product fans and employees who then feel naturally inclined to argue for their favorite companies, that's not always meaningfully different from astroturfing, but this doesn't necessarily mean that what you are reading is coming from some Conversation Control Department. Sometimes lots of people on the Internet just disagree with your opinion.

Negative comment, 2 karma and this is an only comment you made... You look like a sock puppet to me :)

maybe you are the sockpuppet?

Behold the futility of the sock puppet accusation in practice.

(Preempting "jerf is a sock puppet". Let's skip that.)

You just never know, do you? ;)

same thing for facebook, criticise the effectiveness of their ads and watch what happens

tptaceck, someone's talking about you.