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Skriven 2014-08-26 21:23:00 av TIM RICHARDSON (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JEFF BINKLEY
Ärende: INCOME INEQUALITY
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On 08-13-14, BOB KLAHN said to JEFF BINKLEY:


HF>>New favorite quote, replacing Mrs. Thatcher's "The trouble with
HF>>Socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's
HF>>money."


BK>An old one, and it's the same problem with modern American
BK>capitalism.


Here's a good one. Twitter is getting a `speech' police.


Read this article and think of the IRS and any organizations with
the terms: `teaparty'....`conservative'...`republican'...in them.


Also...think of someone's Fido `echo' while you read. The prallel is
uncanny:


Government to track political speech on internet


August 26, 2014


By Rick Moran


This is a real headshaker that should send chills down your spine.
Washington Free Beacon:


The federal government is spending nearly $1 million to create an online
database that will track "misinformation"� and hate speech on Twitter.


The National Science Foundation is financing the creation of a web service
that will monitor "suspicious memes"� and what it considers "false and
misleading ideas,"� with a major focus on political activity online.


The "Truthy"� database, created by researchers at Indiana University, is
designed to "detect political smears, astroturfing, misinformation, and other
social pollution."�


The university has received $919,917 so far for the project.


"The project stands to benefit both the research community and the public
significantly," the grant states. "Our data will be made available via
[application programming interfaces] APIs and include information on meme
propagation networks, statistical data, and relevant user and content
features."


"The open-source platform we develop will be made publicly available and will
be extensible to ever more research areas as a greater preponderance of human
activities are replicated online," it continues. "Additionally, we will create
a web service open to the public for monitoring trends, bursts, and suspicious
memes."�


"This service could mitigate the diffusion of false and misleading ideas,
detect hate speech and subversive propaganda, and assist in the preservation
of open debate,"� the grant said.


"False and misleading ideas"? "Subversive propaganda"? Who's going to define
those terms? What's "misleading"? What's "subversive"? Subversive to who? Or
what?


There's a reason the First Amendment is so unambiguous. It's to keep tyrants
like these people from inflicting their views on the rest of us and preventing
others from freely expressing themselves.


It sounds like the perfect vehicle for left wing academics to "prove" what
nasty, lying, hateful people conservatives are. It will be just one more
weapon used by the left to savage the right.


The only thing this "service" will prevent is freedom of expression by putting
a damper on those with controversial or fringe ideas. Will no one rid us of
these meddlesome tyrants.




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