Posted on 09/01/2009 3:38:42 PM PDT by KAMorin
(CNSNews.com) – Anyone who posts comments on the White House’s Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter pages will have their statements captured and permanently archived by the federal government, according to a plan that the White House is now seeking a contractor to carry out.
The Executive Office of the President is looking for a private contractor to capture and archive comments and information posted on social networking and new media sites where the White House has established a presence. While the Presidential Records Act (PRA) generally requires that the administration preserve information generated by the president and his staff, the White House says that in seeking to collect and preserve comments made by common citizens on social networking sites it is acting “out of an abundance of caution” to comply with the law.
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It’ll be part of your “permanent record.”
Crickets chirping from the ACLU and other lefttards who cried about Bush trampling the Constitution.
Sorry to go all Tinfoil Hat-like, but does this mean that if Rahm is signed up with FReep account, say, DeadFishBoy, or we have AholeRod in our midst, does that mean the WH has “established a presence” here? Just wondering...
Glenn Beck just had a whole hour show today on Fox News about this.
> The document says that White House—which it refers to as the Executive Office of the President (EOP)—“currently maintains” seven sites. These are, www.facebook.com/whitehouse, www.twitter.com/whitehouse, www.myspace.com/whitehouse, www.flickr.com/whitehouse, www.youtube.com/whitehouse, www.vimeo.com/whitehouse, www.slideshare.com/whitehouse.
So shall we all report these sites as “fishy”?
This is what I’m wondering. It is reasonable for them to keep comments on THEIR OWN sites but absolutely not on any other sites.
They have a presence on facebook does that mean ALL of facebook is open for their ‘archving’? This is B.S.
It just never ends with the little Hitler and his minions.
LOL
I no accounts on any them. Archive away....
Well....duh, that’s the point!
“It’ll be part of your “permanent record.””
We must become part of the Borg.
Not only that, you won’t even know it’s going on your permanent record until it’s too late.
You also get put on a macabre version of Dean Vernon Wormer’s double secret probation.
By then, it’s all too late.
BTW, doesn’t Google already sorta do this, ditto Wayback Machine etc. You know, capture stuff using little bitty ‘bots?
The Obamadroids are running paranoid while desperately finding a way to get a handle on gasp, shudder, “independent thought”.
“Sieg Heil!” ping
“Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.”
Yours is a really catchy tag line. I suppose the managers of our new health care system might want to salvage my guns. They’ll be welcome to them, just as soon as I finish giving away the ammo, one shot at a time.
BTTT
You mean they aren’t doing it already?
this WH is obsessed with monitoring the American People...
This WH has no clue what our Revolutionary War was all about...
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