PubCom DDoS attack
I wrote a summary article.
https://gyazo.com/9093ea0c0ed51ba9464c5de24ed60f26
2025-02-19
Sankei_news [4,000 submissions using AI? 46 people, 10% of the total, most of them anti-nuclear, invited for opinions on basic energy plan - Sankei News https://www. sankei.com/article/20250219-I4WUMKZPUFMO3O5G2BVP7KL7XY/] If the public solicitation of opinions, whose purpose is to incorporate diverse opinions, frequently generates a large number of submissions by generated AI, there is a risk that opinions that should be reflected in policy will be buried.
2025-03-19
The article "120,000 pubic comments on decontaminated soil" and "many with identical content" omits important background, which I will add.
So far, anti-nuclear activists have sent in a large number of pubic comments, and the reason for the 40 to 50 times increase this time from five years ago is activity by the conspiracy theory community.
As I have posted on X before, the conspiracy theory community supporting Senator Kazuhiro Haraguchi has been posting a lot of pubic comments.
Some of the pubic comments are given a game-like nature, with a high rating if the pubic comment is "Kiri number" such as 1000 or 2000.
These mass postings of conspiracy theories have made pubic commentary dysfunctional.
https://gyazo.com/96c16a3f0d4e18bf3c8446c8ea964f48https://gyazo.com/c28c7057f364ce5474ff5ce404830436https://gyazo.com/3de9ec44d3a0cdfb09bfda2777e6316b
Attackers are becoming more organized.
2025-03-24
nikkei Pubic opinion "abnormal number of cases" one after another, mobilized by social networking sites, and the will of the people fading away. 2025-03-25
The public comment on the "Basic Energy Plan" approved by the Cabinet last month received more than 41,000 comments, more than six times the number of comments received when the plan was last approved four years ago.
The report says that many opinions opposed to nuclear power generation were received, but many of the opinions were exactly the same down to the finest expressions, and there were more than 1,000 opinions that just said "no".
In some cases, they received more than 400 comments from people with the same name.
During the period of soliciting opinions, there were posts on social networking sites calling for submissions while also sharing a model of an opinion, as well as movements to show that one has obtained a good number, such as "10,000," which is the serial number issued when an opinion is submitted.
2025-04-15
2025-04-19
Expert: "It is not a system of majority rule."
Public comment is a system for democratic decision-making, but unlike majority rule, the original purpose of public comment is to collect information that has not been collected by the government.
https://gyazo.com/888c14c0ebde41793d9bee8ff90e09f9https://gyazo.com/fbe6f0c451816875d6c5082df94e1dbb
Article about receipt of this on 1/22/22.
Deep Research on social networking post calling behavior
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