Posted on 02/27/2018 7:40:00 AM PST by BenLurkin
1) Obama thinks Google, Facebook, etc., are "a public good as well as a commercial enterprise," and should consider whether they are corroding our democracy.
Obama described social media platforms as a "hugely powerful potential force for good," but then immediately hedged.
"... I do think the large platforms—Google and Facebook being the most obvious, Twitter and others as well, are part of that ecosystem—have to have a conversation about their business model that recognizes they are a public good as well as a commercial enterprise...."
"Essentially we now have entirely different realities that are being created with not just different opinions, but now different facts," he said. "And this isn't just by the way Russian inspired bots and fake news. This is Fox News vs. The New York Times editorial page....."
Obama noted that in other countries—like China—the government simply decides which viewpoints can be aired in public....government has a role to play in ensuring there are "basic rules of the road in place that create level playing fields."
2) It's okay to argue about how we should address climate change. It's not okay to deny the underlying science.
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4) Diversity isn't about "charity or political correctness, it's just common sense."
"We didn't have a scandal that embarrassed us," he said.
5) Obama thinks the stereotype about lazy government employees is wrong.
The idea that people in the private sector work harder than the feds is a misperception, said Obama.
"At least at the top levels of the federal government, ... Our folks were putting in 80-hour work weeks and barely getting vacations and under unimaginable pressure."
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
t’s okay to argue about how we should address climate change. It’s not okay to deny the underlying science.
Nobody is denying the “science”. They are calling the conclusions reached by the chicken little’ss to be ridiculous. Not to mention, some of the “science” is pure BS and downright lies.
” Our folks were putting in 80-hour work weeks and barely getting vacations and under unimaginable pressure.”
50,000 or so texts ...
“Our folks were putting in 80-hour work weeks and barely getting vacations and under unimaginable pressure.”
Like the guy doing upskirts on a subway with a government phone on government time?
““We didn’t have a scandal that embarrassed us,” he said
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Because you had the Ministry of Propaganda covering for you.
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This. I remember seeing facebook posts saying how great it was that obammer never had a scandal.
Of course he didn’t have any scandals. Especially when you had the DOJ and FBI calling a major criminal investigation just a “matter”. The sad thing is that over half the country believes the propaganda.
Didn’t George Soros just say that he wanted China to lead the “New World Order” that the elites were trying to create? Everything Obama says seems to parrot the elites...
I think he meant the coup plotters were putting in eighty hour weeks. :-)
“We didn’t have a scandal that embarrassed us,” he said.
You don’t have a conscience for that sort of thing so, yeah...
The 80 hour work thing is total bull hockey. My BIL was Deputy Director then acting Director of a govt agency until last year. He worked hard but basically a 40 hour work week and 4 weeks of vacay.
He’s their sock-puppet.......................
“We didn’t have a scandal that embarrassed us,” he said
What does it take to embarrass him? If Joe Pedophile didn’t embarrass him, nothing will.
Exactly..
Hussein’s understanding of “level playing fields” for public discourse is not to give everyone equal opportunity to be heard. It is to bulldoze (and thus level) the marketplace of ideas.
The one sure way to get people to talk about your narcoleptic speech? Ban talking about it.
Which is the ONLY reason people are talking about it.
The guy won’t go away unless we stop listening.
We should listen—he is dumb enough to give away the ugly secrets of the “Deep State”.
These kind of statist pep talks go on all the time behind closed doors.
And cashing in on million dollar fake dreaded private sector jobs and book deals. Millions for producing nothing other than getting in the way of GDP and freedom, taking people's money and making their lives more difficult with less peace of mind.
Obama is not evil itself, he's nothing really, he is merely a vessel.
Their scandals didn’t embarrass them because they knew exactly what they were doing & doing it deliberately.
” ... (except for Congress and its staff, of course).”
And muzzies and other groups favored by ovomit.
The fraud and traitor is a spittoon.
It's called, "turning a blind eye", and he has his adoring media to thank for that, certainly not his integrity.
After 8 years of voluntary journalistic constipation...too bad there isn't anything like Pampers for the mouth to now control their disgusting incontinence.
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