#no.common.ground.remains
Posted on 10/24/2014 9:24:58 PM PDT by lbryce
The National Science Foundation (NSF) project designed to track “misinformation” on Twitter has removed portions of its website that monitored political users, including conservatives who used the “tcot” hashtag.
“Truthy,” the nearly $1 million research project being conducted by the University of Indiana, has redesigned its website following the Washington Free Beacon’s initial report on the study.
Truthy Removes Part of Website That Monitored Conservative Hashtags
Free Beacon prohibited from asking further questions about project
The service is intended to monitor “suspicious memes” and “false and misleading ideas,” with a major focus on political activity online.
Truthy has received increased media attention since Republican FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai published an editorial last week warning that the project could be misused. “The concept seems to have come straight out of a George Orwell novel,” he wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
Truthy has received increased media attention since Republican FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai published an editorial last week warning that the project could be misused.”
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
So where are the nimrods on the FEC on this?
From President Eisenhower's farewell address.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present -- and is gravely to be regarded.Eisenhower hit dead center with that warning.Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
Eisenhower was vastly underrated as a President.
#no.common.ground.remains
Great post.
The “National Science Foundation” huh????? What the hell is it doing that deals with science? This is nothing more than a left-wing political hog sucking at the tits of the taxpayers and produces nothing more than fodder for the advancement to Communism and Marxism.
What a fool I am for I always thought “science” was based on proven cold hard facts about actual physical and tangible factors.....not propaganda.
——could be misused——
The sole purpose of such an endeavor is to have it “misused”.
Misuse to a conservative is money in the pocket and useful propaganda to the moonbats running that show
I somewhat disagree. The last half of his warning is: "we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite." I don't believe that this has occurred, to any major extent.
Now, some might argue that the global warming scientific cult has influenced government policy negatively. In my opinion, that is not what has happened. I believe liberal government elites latched onto an obscure group of scientific kooks and turned them into the pseudo scientific cult they now are by giving them massive doses of government money. This is the first half of the warning from President Eisenhower, not the second.
The Left continually hammer the Right about the military-industrial complex part of that speech, and then conveniently ignores that part of it.
What we see happening with the Anthropogenic Global Warming agenda as a means to obtain greater government control and taxation on energy is another great example of the truth of the warning you posted.
Kudos to Elizabeth Harrington of the Beacon for bringing this project to light and FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai for publicly criticizing it.
Next step is defunding.
“conducted by the University of Indiana”
Indiana University?
All of these big organizations (and companies) are liberal or eventually become liberal. There are several reasons for this:
1. People who rise to the top and run an organization generally have the sort of personality that wants to tell other people what to do - a hallmark of liberalism/totalitarianism.
2. Conservatives tend to be people who work hard and are good at it. Therefore they are too busy doing actual work to scheme/lobby/manipulate themselves into positions of power. (They are also too busy with raising families, going to church, volunteering.)
3. Liberals with few skills other than scheming and manipulation love to swoop in and claim credit for anything good which someone else created. They then proceed to run it into the ground.
When a conservative is running something it’s usually only in 2 cases:
1. It’s a business/organization he started himself and worked to build.
2. The liberals running things made the organization so intolerable to work for that the conservative got disgusted enough to try to make changes.
Truthy has received increased media attention since Republican FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai published an editorial last week warning that the project could be misused.”
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