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by akira2501 748 days ago
> Certainly banning 500 bots on youtube or twitter would not be noticable.

If they were 500 independent bots, sure. If they're 500 bots that are coordinated, then I wouldn't be so sure, because the logic cuts the other way.

"Certainly spending money and political capital to run just 500 bots on youtube wouldn't move the needle and would create much useless risk."