White House abandons YouTube

Also in the News: White House abandons YouTube
Mar 02, 2009
Privacy complaints force a change in plans

With complaints by privacy activists stacking up, the White House has quietly dropped YouTube as the supplier of embedded videos on the White House home page, according to CNET news.

Instead, the Obama administration will use its own Flash-based solution. The decision came following growing criticism of Google-owned YouTube's use of tracking cookies.

The White House counsel recently issued a waiver to the long-held no-cookie presumption of privacy for visitors to the White House Web site, a decision challenged by privacy groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Obama’s technology team, widely praised for running the most technologically advanced presidential campaign in history, is finding it more difficult to adapt the model to government, according to the Washington Post. The bureaucracy surrounding security and privacy rules is only one of the problems.

The new White House video solution, which appears to use Akamai’s content delivery network, does not make use of tracking cookies, CNET said.

Actually the Obamaistas thought the gov't worked just like the Internet.

I'm waiting for them to discover that ALL government websites have to be usable by the blind and handicapped AND, bwahahaha, that includes those with what we might call "anomalous color vision".

Nothing like a ton of Leftwingtard bureaucratic court decisions, laws and executive orders to bog down what might have been a good idea in the beginning.

I'm going to make my "can I read it" strike on www.whitehouse.gov in a few weeks ~ every single board better be readable, and I'd best be able to interact with it using keyboard only commands. If not I'm going to get rich with a lawsuit.

“Considering Arcane Lame McCain couldn’t spell CPU if you spotted him the C and the P, they could have used a dial-up modem and smoked him.”

This is a Forbes article from 2000
http://www.forbes.com/asap/2000/0529/053_print.html

“In certain ways, McCain was a natural Web candidate. Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate’s savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email. His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. “She’s a whiz on the keyboard, and I’m so laborious,” McCain admits.”

“Ultimately, McCain realized he couldn’t go the distance, but the message was clear to any political organization with hopes for the future. His Web team had played the Internet like a Stradivari. Ballot petitioning was simplified. Local email brought out large crowds on a few hours’ notice. The Web was used to enlist phone bankers from all over the country to download voter lists in upcoming primary states and then to make calls from their homes. Hundreds of thousands were reached at virtually no cost, compared to the going rate of 50 cents for every call from a professional phone bank. The Web became a virtual political print shop enabling thousands of volunteers to download and reproduce millions of pieces of campaign literature and signs on their home printers. The various pages on McCain’s Web site were used to put out key registration information and to douse political fires.

According to Wes Gullett, McCain’s deputy campaign manager, the Internet was “everything—the only way we could have survived.” Time and again, Gullett was stunned by the power of the new kind of interactive campaign being created as they went along. “I had 2,500 volunteers in Arizona alone,” he says. “We had a headquarters full of people who knew about the campaign from the Internet.”

The campaign’s innovative use of the Internet could turn out to be the most important single factor of this year’s election. And woe unto the future candidate who doesn’t study the McCain 2000 Internet campaign strategy carefully. “The Web was only an electronic billboard in the last two elections,” Max Fose says, “but this is the first time anyone ran a truly interactive campaign.” It certainly will not be the last.”

I remember it as the media just laying it on so fast and furious that there was no time to try and counter it with facts such as this story. The media never explained that his personal hands could not handle a keyboard because of the torture, but that McCain did use computers.

You were uninformed.

““In certain ways, McCain was a natural Web candidate. Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate’s savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email. His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. “She’s a whiz on the keyboard, and I’m so laborious,” McCain admits.””

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