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5 Things Barack Obama Said in His Weirdly Off-the-Record MIT Speech
reason.com ^ | Feb. 26, 2018 6:11 pm | Robby Soave|

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 ...


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KEYWORDS: control; facebook; google; internet; obama; restrictions; twitter
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To: BenLurkin
"Hussein pronounced that google, facebook and twitter should censor speech which is not politically correct. And if they won’t, government should require them to do so."

Exactly!
21 posted on 02/27/2018 7:56:53 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: BenLurkin

t’s okay to argue about how we should address climate change. It’s not okay to deny the underlying science.


Forgetting for a moment that the guy, when off record, exposes being a complete nincompoop, I must address the comment above.

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.


22 posted on 02/27/2018 7:58:02 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: BenLurkin

” Our folks were putting in 80-hour work weeks and barely getting vacations and under unimaginable pressure.”

50,000 or so texts ...


23 posted on 02/27/2018 7:58:41 AM PST by TexasGator (Z)
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To: BenLurkin

“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?


24 posted on 02/27/2018 7:59:37 AM PST by TexasGator (Z)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

““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.


25 posted on 02/27/2018 8:00:21 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: Red Badger

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...


26 posted on 02/27/2018 8:00:27 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: TexasGator

I think he meant the coup plotters were putting in eighty hour weeks. :-)


27 posted on 02/27/2018 8:00:58 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: BenLurkin

“We didn’t have a scandal that embarrassed us,” he said.

You don’t have a conscience for that sort of thing so, yeah...


28 posted on 02/27/2018 8:01:20 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


29 posted on 02/27/2018 8:02:11 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

He’s their sock-puppet.......................


30 posted on 02/27/2018 8:02:13 AM PST by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: shelterguy

“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.


31 posted on 02/27/2018 8:03:32 AM PST by Loud Mime (Liberalism: Intolerance masquerading as tolerance, Ignorance masquerading as Intelligence)
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To: cgbg

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.


32 posted on 02/27/2018 8:03:37 AM PST 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 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.


33 posted on 02/27/2018 8:09:51 AM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: StAntKnee

We should listen—he is dumb enough to give away the ugly secrets of the “Deep State”.


34 posted on 02/27/2018 8:11:04 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: StAntKnee

These kind of statist pep talks go on all the time behind closed doors.


35 posted on 02/27/2018 8:11:27 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin
""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."

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.

36 posted on 02/27/2018 8:11:34 AM PST by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Their scandals didn’t embarrass them because they knew exactly what they were doing & doing it deliberately.


37 posted on 02/27/2018 8:12:34 AM PST by Twotone
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To: Diogenesis

” ... (except for Congress and its staff, of course).”

And muzzies and other groups favored by ovomit.


38 posted on 02/27/2018 8:13:11 AM PST by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: tinyowl

The fraud and traitor is a spittoon.


39 posted on 02/27/2018 8:14:11 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: BenLurkin
"We didn't have a scandal that embarrassed us,"

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.

40 posted on 02/27/2018 8:14:28 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For Ken)
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