July 20, 2006
Sock-puppeting is the dishonest and unethical practice of posting on web sites and blogs under assumed identities, often to praise or defend yourself.
L.A.Times columnist Michael Hiltzik lost his blog over it, as this practice clearly violated the Times ethics guidelines.
Now liberal blogger Glenn Greenwald stands accused of posting under at least three four five different identities other than his own, using the aliases "Ellison," "Wilson," "Sam Matthews," "Ryan," and "Thomas Ellers" to either flatter or defend himself across a host of conservative political blogs.
All of these identities are apparently tracked back to the same unique IP address in Montevideo, Brazil, where the best selling author of How Would a Patriot Act? lives as an apparent expatriate, fraud, and master sock-puppeteer .
For the details:
Shawn at The Sky is Red can take credit for noting that something was fishy, while Patterico (the man who caught Hiltzik) and Ace of Spades bring the pain.
Update: Greenwald denies the charges, saying in part:
I have never left a single comment at any other blog using any name other than my own, at least not since I began blogging. IP addresses signify the Internet account one uses, not any one individual. Those in the same household have the same IP address.
It must be a very large house.
Update 2: It seems Greenwald's sycophants aren't real big fans of these allegations being revealed.
Instead they'd rather change the subject by attacking the messenger with false charges of pedophilia, and international sources, and even pictures!
Classy.
Update 3: Greenwald, as evidenced in the quote above, seems to be trying to lay the groundwork for the claim that someone else in his house left the comments, with the obvious insinuation that this boyfriend did so. How loyal.
But "Birkel," posting in the comments at Ace of Spades, seems to torpedo that avenue of retreat as well:
According to Patterico one of the comments including the allegation that the poster/puppet had E-mailed Gleen for his point of view.If you live in the same house why would you E-mail somebody for their opinion? Does that make any sense?
No it doesn't.
It would make perfect sense, however, for someone building sock puppet identities.
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