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With the way the modern world of advertising is -- that is, completely built on astroturfing and buying out media placement through sponsorships and SEO -- forums are the ONLY way to get certain kinds of good information e.g., product reviews.
We've capitalismed ourselves into a position where we cannot trust 3/4 of our primary media.
and where proponents of the untrustable attack those with even a shred of integrity remaining