Comments on: FOI Topics and Links of the Week http://futureoftheinternet.org/foi-topics-and-links-of-the-week-3 Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:25:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Seth Finkelstein http://futureoftheinternet.org/foi-topics-and-links-of-the-week-3/comment-page-1#comment-16285 Seth Finkelstein Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:41:15 +0000 http://futureoftheinternet.org/?p=1070#comment-16285 "A website crowd-sources stock picks. ... it would be particularly treacherous if this website were subverted—say, by a company ordering its employees to vote its stock up." 1) There's much "worse" sites around, some with the backing of A-listers. 2) You're way way late to the party on this one: a) the heyday of this sort of fleecing was a decade ago, when day-trading was all the rage. b) "ordering" would be illegal. The sophisticated thing to do is hire a confidence hustler, I mean, a social media expert. 3) See my old blog post talking about the disturbing implications of Joe Tripppi's past as a stock tout: http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/000529.html “A website crowd-sources stock picks. … it would be particularly treacherous if this website were subverted—say, by a company ordering its employees to vote its stock up.”

1) There’s much “worse” sites around, some with the backing of A-listers.

2) You’re way way late to the party on this one:
a) the heyday of this sort of fleecing was a decade ago, when day-trading was all the rage.
b) “ordering” would be illegal. The sophisticated thing to do is hire a confidence hustler, I mean, a social media expert.

3) See my old blog post talking about the disturbing implications of Joe Tripppi’s past as a stock tout:

http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/000529.html

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