The Twat-o-Tron is a neat script that mimics the xenophobic bollocks spewed by many of the commenters on the BBC’s Have Your Say website.

From Kuro5hin:

As well as providing endless entertainment, this tool highlights the negative feedback loop that is emerging on many “Have Your Say” areas of news sites. The Daily Mail (dreadful Murdoch-owned UK tabloid rag) has long been suspected of editing user comments to display only those that toe the editorial line (mostly rants about brown people, Labour and dole-scroungers), which only reinforces the prejudices of those who read these news sources for the sole purpose of achieving a glow of righteous fury over the “state of the UK today”.

As a dole-scrounging brown person, I say: “Ya Damn Kids! Get Offa My Lawn!”

It’s an interesting social phenomenon that seems to show that the intelligent people tend to not comment on these sorts of sites if, in fact, they are paying attention to the traditional media at all.
Let’s hear it for the lowest common denominator.

[via Kuro5hin, danke!]

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