Posted on 01/13/2012 5:17:49 AM PST by tutstar
Just prior to his appointment as President Obama’s so-called regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein wrote a lengthy academic paper suggesting the government should “infiltrate” social network websites, chat rooms and message boards.
Such “cognitive infiltration,” Sunstein argued, should be used to enforce a U.S. government ban on “conspiracy theorizing.”
Among the beliefs Sunstein classified as a “conspiracy theory” is advocating that the theory of global warming is a deliberate fraud.
The find comes as a government document reportedly relates the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s command center routinely monitors dozens of popular websites, including Facebook, Twitter, Hulu, WikiLeaks and news sites including the Huffington Post and Drudge Report.
Reuters reported that a “privacy compliance review” issued by DHS last November confirms that since at least June 2010, the department’s national operations center has been operating a “Social Networking/Media Capability” which involves regular monitoring of “publicly available online forums, blogs, public websites and message boards.”
The government document states such monitoring is meant to “collect information used in providing situational awareness and establishing a common operating picture” to help manage national or international emergency events.
While the DHS may be monitoring websites for security reasons, Sunstein advocated such actions with another goal in mind.
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Thanks WOC!
WHY? did you make that so small?
I’m pretty sure the gov’t already has people on the social network sites.
Every evil the Left imagines conservatives to be, the Left is.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/magazine/16Sunstein-t.html
witness the reverent gushing of the political eunuchs of the 4th Estate, awed at the genius of Cass Sunstein
Hint: Put on your waders before reading
Yeah, they’re the guys calling for violent overthrow of the government to see who they can get to “2nd” that thought so they can go on “the list”.
Face it Will, Cass Sunstein is just not that into us
Cross fingers he continues to think of us as trivial gnats
Here is the paper in question. As a general rule it is always better to examine the original source:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Susstein1.pdf
““an effort to explain some event or practice by reference to the machinations of powerful people, who have also managed to conceal their role.”
So Marxism is a conspiracy theory!
See my post #35
Global warming is a HOAX!
Say something bad about our FIRST RADICAL MUSLIM PRESIDENT and you will find out "thought crimes" are already alive and well (or saying it another way, they've already started planning funerals for traitors who love America how it used to be).
North Korea's version of a USA FEMA camp?
You noticed that, too? Lots of oppo research on here tearing our candidates down.
Hi guy! I know you’re here! But I lost all my snug and omma when the island tipped over!
the government are a bunch Keystone Kops anyways. they are inept.
Reminds me of the old encryption news board. Folks use to start a thread about the NSA and within a few posts some one with CLEARLY a great deal of knowledge would jump in and try to kill it calling folks all sorts of names and what have you. If anyone thinks they aren’t ALLREADY doing this stuff I have a bridge for sale.
I’ll have to watch that later.
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