"In the days of old, governments, foundations, media and academia used to influence people with real voices from real people. Now corporations are creating AI bots to manipulate the political spectrum and influence the direction of our lives."

This is a lot of why I rail against bots on Steemit. Steemit is a microcosm of the world, a voluntarist government, which people can use right now to fund any kind of public good or agency, anywhere in the world.

But profiteering, generally using bots as a vector, has increasingly transformed it from having world changing potential into a cryptocurrency mining mechanism.

I dig my heels in, generally, and usually am left holding the bag after all the other suspects run away, and as a result, I recognize how it feels when it's coming.

It's coming here.

My last conversation about how to get bots off the platform, with @neoxian, was perhaps the most rewarding I have had with any of the top witnesses or Stinc on the matter to date, because I was heartfeltedly ridiculed and reviled, which is definitely a step forward from being ignored or handwaved away.

IIRC, the next step after being violently opposed is winning.

I am pretty sure that if I win on this issue, and bots are evicted from voting on Steemit, Steemit will win, and society as a whole, as well as investors, whose Steem will be quickly worth a great deal more than it is now.

To quote @everittdmickey 'Kill all bots.'

You probably never read my sole Curie'd post 'Fresh Meat', a scifi short for a @thewritersblock competition, but I think the story speaks for itself.

It's them or us, eventually, if we let them vote, it's gonna be them.

Thanks!