The government figured out sockpuppet managment but not "persona management".

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44. Darby's pal Lee Stranaham has admitted to something similar

Darby and Stranahan have engaged in several ventures together, including being jointly responsible for the anti-Occupy smear film "Occupy Unmasked." Here's something Stranahan wrote at one of the Breitbart websites, whining about how totalitarian it was that a DU jury had deleted his sock puppet's post defending Darby. Going by the bit I bolded, it seems like he'd had the DU account for several years before using it -- so perhaps Darby had learned from the incident and is now advising trolls to build up their personas before actually putting them to use.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/02/21/democratic-undergrounds-hides-occupy-assaults-smears-brandon-darby

21 Feb 2012

The popular liberal website Democratic Underground had a vicious, factually inaccurate post about Bigs contributor Brandon Darby and our work on the story of assaults at Occupy. I decided to correct these errors and my post was promptly banned by a "jury" at Democratic Underground and hidden from view; another clear example of the constant liberal censorship and how the entire left seems intent on covering up assaults at Occupy.

The original thread started Saturday was entitled Why are FBI agent provocateurs taunting Occupy? was started by a user named FarLeftFist, who wrote: "A little background: Brandon was outed as an FBI agent after posing as an Leftist activist in 2008. He threw a number of people in jail as an agent provocateur and now spends his time working for Andrew Breitbart and still works undercover. He spends his time on Twitter along with Andrew Breitbart taunting Leftists and posting smears ALL DAY LONG. Him and Andy also spend alot of time along with Dana Loesch having twitter-wars with Keith Olbermann and others. I have been involved in these back and forths as a twitter user myself. They get nasty, ugly, and even threatening as Darby and Breitbart unleash their moronic henchmen on anyone they choose" . . .

So, I had a Democratic Underground account I started a couple of years ago but haven't used. I decided it was time to post. I said: ". . . And now you attack a guy -- Brandon -- who STOPPED people from using Molotov Cocktails. That's the 'snitching' he did; stopping admitted, convicted liars who wanted to perpatrate violence. Is violence okay if Republicans are your targets? Stop acting like sheep and believing the radical left's lies."

In less than an hour, I relieved the following, telling me that my post was hidden by a "randomly selected jury." The Kafkaesque anonymous cyber tribunal didn't ask me to testify or ask any questions. Such is left wing "justice."