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Feds Financing System to ‘Automatically Detect’ Cyberbullying
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Posted on 03/28/2015 12:13:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin

The project was awarded this month to Rutgers University, which has received $117,102 so far. The real-time, automatic detection of hurtful online speech is necessary, according to the NSF grant, because cyberbullying is a “critical social problem.” The grant said 40 percent of American teenagers have reported being cyberbullied.

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Vivek K. Singh, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University, is leading the project.

“I have worked on multiple projects including designing a novel media sharing application, detecting patterns in large scale Twitter feeds, and analyzing community behavior in social media to design mechanisms to ‘nudge’ people into suitable behaviors,” he writes on his website.

(Excerpt) Read more at megynkelly.us ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1984; 1stamendment; bigbrother; cyberbullying; freespeech; hatecrime; nannystate; nsf; suitablebehaviors; thoughtcrime
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1 posted on 03/28/2015 12:13:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Here Is Why It’s Time To Get Tough On Hate Speech In America
http://thoughtcatalog.com/tanya-cohen/2015/01/here-is-why-its-time-to-get-tough-on-hate-speech-in-america/


2 posted on 03/28/2015 12:16:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://www.tedcruz.org/donate/)
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To: BenLurkin

oh boy. the powers that be, spinning their hate on us into a need for us to be modest.

Declare me an infidel. they need to focus on Chinese and Putin trolls, but mooo, it all will be cleverly misdirected.


3 posted on 03/28/2015 12:18:54 PM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall no)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Common Sense” speech control.

Next logical step after “Common Sense” gun control.


4 posted on 03/28/2015 12:19:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

The KGB was so foolish - they imposed surveillance, when they could have just let the liberals create it and enslave themselves.


5 posted on 03/28/2015 12:19:59 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: BenLurkin; null and void; Slings and Arrows; martin_fierro

Yeah.. a system to automatically detect “cyber bullying” eh?
Riiiiiight.
To be defined as what exactly?

Ping to a few parties who might be interested in eyeballing the article as well.
Thanks for the find Ben!


6 posted on 03/28/2015 12:33:58 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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Just remember that any disagreement with Obama is racist hate speech, so we’d better all start agreeing. Or else!


7 posted on 03/28/2015 12:41:26 PM PDT by JJ_Folderol (Diagonally parked in a parallel universe...)
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To: BenLurkin

This will work about as well as the Obamacare signup websites.

They are going to get themselves outraged and laughed into nonexistence as they clumsily filter keywords and the lawsuits come from those thus victimized, or else the project will never finish because the technology does not exist.

And again this might have nothing to do with harassment but to set up for more general spying.


8 posted on 03/28/2015 12:55:55 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: BenLurkin

starts with bullying. ends with doubting dear leader


9 posted on 03/28/2015 12:57:48 PM PDT by varyouga
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To: Talisker

too true,

and the day is coming when believing exactly what you and I do right now and expressing it online, is going to make us criminals from this increasingly corrupt and tyrannical government,


10 posted on 03/28/2015 1:03:30 PM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: BenLurkin

A real, physical bully can punch you in the face. An online mean guy, you can just turn off the computer or go to another site.


11 posted on 03/28/2015 1:26:09 PM PDT by LYDIAONTARIO
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To: BenLurkin

I guess FR will be in their sights then!


12 posted on 03/28/2015 1:40:57 PM PDT by FreeInWV (Have you had enough change yet?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here we go. Content control. Offensive speech control. Offensiveness to eventually be entirely the judgment of the person who wishes to be “offended” or whatever bureaucrat is in charge ideological reliability or of enhancing his own importance.


13 posted on 03/28/2015 1:44:33 PM PDT by arthurus (it's true!)
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To: BenLurkin

The system can only work if it understands sarcasm. It doesn’t, and therefore will attack the sarcastic among us, who are also the most intelligent among us. This will be okay, because it will level the playing field, sort of like aggressively “progressive” income taxes.

We did not “go Galt”, we were Galted.


14 posted on 03/28/2015 2:09:24 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: arthurus

Similar tools to monitor all your online activities and track social networks for key influencers have been known for several years.

What is Rapid Information Overlay Technology or RIOT Software?
http://tamarawilhite.hubpages.com/hub/What-is-Rapid-Information-Overlay-Technology-or-RIOT-Software

Protecting Your Privacy from Tools like RIOT and PRISM
http://tamarawilhite.hubpages.com/hub/Protecting-Your-Privacy-from-Tools-like-RIOT-Software

This new “cyberbullying” tool simply consolidates all of the data analysis to find out who is using non-PC terms, what accounts they use, who they talk to and help identify the people to shut down to end 95% of the discussion.


15 posted on 03/28/2015 4:55:23 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: BenLurkin

If you don’t want to be “cyberbullied”, then don’t expose every aspect of your life on foolish social media sites.

Problem solved.


16 posted on 03/28/2015 4:58:16 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: BenLurkin; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...
The biggest killer of mankind

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

FCC NSA Internet

17 posted on 03/30/2015 5:28:27 AM PDT by null and void (He who kills a tyrant (i.e. an usurper) to free his country is praised and rewarded ~ Thomas Aquinas)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good grief. Whoever wrote that piece of fascism should be locked up for hate speech.


18 posted on 03/30/2015 9:15:41 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: BenLurkin; SheLion; Eric Blair 2084; -YYZ-; 31R1O; 383rr; AFreeBird; AGreatPer; Alamo-Girl; Alia; ..

Online criticism of the LGBT agenda will be out of the question, needless to say.

Nanny State PING!


19 posted on 03/30/2015 11:22:17 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks ( _\\//)
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To: null and void

the thugocracy marches on


20 posted on 03/30/2015 8:35:43 PM PDT by Nifster
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