"I tried to tell you, 20 years ago."
Posted on 08/27/2014 7:43:47 AM PDT by Baynative
Via the Lars Larson Radio Show, yesterday:
The federal government spent $1 million to create a database to track hate speech and “misinformation” on Twitter. The National Science Foundation is behind the creation of the online government monitoring project. The database will reportedly include searches for “suspicious memes,” “false and misleading ideas” and will place particular focus on online political activity.
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Their “false & misleading” is someone else’s idea of truth & there is only one source of truth. I doubt that source is this administration.
I’ll save them a lot of time and money. It’s all misinformation.
Obama’s Law: Anything you say will be held against you.
Remember back when Jimmy Carter proposed a system to monitor telephone calls and automatically start recording it IF certain words were used.
“This secret court began during the Jimmy Carter Administration with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, in 1978. Initiated by Ted Kennedy it had strong bipartisan support. It was created as a response to President Richard Nixon’s usage of federal resources to spy on political activist groups during his tenure as president, which likely violated the Fourth Amendment.
Ironically, the solution, legalized spying on our own citizens, was a greater violation of the Amendment than before. Few voices opposed giving the government extra spy power during the “Cold War” when it seemed that the whole planet was falling under the totalitarian influence of communism but, once legalized, the surveillance moved to other groups notably the socialists who opposed the Vietnamese War.”
NOW, Jimmy uses snail mail as he is afraid his e-mails will be monitored by the NSA. Oh the irony!
It looks more and more like Republicans can balance future budgets by cutting waste and nonsense like this.
Many of the chilling prophecies of the future I read about in sci-fi novels when I was young have come to pass.
The one story I remember was how people had been herded into cramped apartments (Agenda 21, anyone?) and the amount of fresh air was regulated. You were not permitted more than 3 people’s worth of air in your apartment. If you tried to have a larger gathering, and needed to turn up the air volume, the authorities would be notified and come make inquiries to be sure you weren’t having an “unapproved political meeting.”
We aren’t far off from that, are we?
The Internet sure has made the job of the Thought Police easier.
A million dollars is chicken scratch to this administration. How much are they really spending and are they using the same staff who ran Obama’s old “Fight the Smears” webpage?
Morris Dees and the SPLCC is gonna be bent that the feds are cutting into their action!
Americans - in the traditional understanding of that demonym - don’t cower.
That was memorialized in a YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv-P00H6P2E
Heck, $1 million is the cost of one trial in federal court. Or a few Obama toilets.
"I tried to tell you, 20 years ago."
That’s our knee jerk reaction, but the real danger of these laws is the Unintended consequences: they will eventually be applied EVERYWHERE so that the very concept of “hate” and speech is obliterated. And without hate, there is no love.
Oh, they’ll be hate, but the government will tell you who you should hate....bet it George Zimmerman or Darren Wilson.
Next week they’ll come up with some other “Emmanuel Goldstein” for the Two Minutes Hate.
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