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Trump Admin Is Considering Using [Big Tech] To Determine If Citizens Should Own A Gun
The Daily Caller ^ | August 22, 2019 | Chris White

Posted on 09/01/2019 4:56:55 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The Trump administration is considering a proposal that would use Google, Amazon and Apple to collect data on users who exhibit characteristics of mental illness that could lead to violent behavior, The Washington Post reported Thursday.

The proposal is part of an initiative to create a Health Advanced Research Projects Agency (HARPA), which would be located inside the Health and Human Services Department, the report notes, citing sources inside the administration. The new agency would have a separate budget and the president would be responsible for appointing its director.

HARPA would take after Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, which serves as the research arm for the Pentagon. The idea was first crafted in 2017 but has since gotten a renewed push after mass shootings killed 31 people in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, in August.

The Suzanne Wright Foundation approached the president recently and proposed the agency include a project called Stopping Aberrant Fatal Events by Helping Overcome Mental Extremes, or Safe Home, the report notes, citing two people familiar with the matter.

President Donald Trump has a close relationship with Bob Wright, who founded the foundation after his wife died of cancer. Wright was a former chair of NBC and occupied that position while the president hosted “The Apprentice.”

HARPA would develop “breakthrough technologies with high specificity and sensitivity for early diagnosis of neuropsychiatric violence,” according to a copy of the proposal. “A multi-modality solution, along with real-time data analytics, is needed to achieve such an accurate diagnosis.”

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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If Trump allows Google and Facebook to decide if I’m a menace to society and can have my guns denied, I swear before God Almighty I will never vote for him. Why do I smell Ivanka here?

It would probably be better to vote for the Democrats directly rather than die the death of A Thousand Cuts


41 posted on 09/01/2019 5:31:13 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This sounds like the Department of Pre-Crime and could so easily be turned against any group not favored by the government.


42 posted on 09/01/2019 5:31:37 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Yes, citizens should own a gun.

Next.


43 posted on 09/01/2019 5:32:58 PM PDT by chris37 (Monday, March 25 2019 is Maga Day!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Buy American made gun products this weekend.


44 posted on 09/01/2019 5:33:35 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Get your houses in order.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I would suspect this is already happening. And a lot of other things as well.

And we think China is alone in its Social Credit Rating system.


45 posted on 09/01/2019 5:35:18 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
". . . The Washington Post reported Thursday."

". . . citing sources inside the administration."

The Washington Post (Washington DC's liar of record) spews about an idea they've heard floated by someone in the HHS Department, a department where Trump has no friends, and hopes suckers believe that Trump is considering the idea so some of his supporters get pissed off and refuse to vote for him again.

I'd bet that at most, Trump met with someone from HHS and ignored the idea moving on to other things rather than instantly calling the HHS dolt a stupid jackass.

When Trump personally says something and video of him saying it is available, I believe he's considering it. Otherwise I consider everything from the "Russian Collusion" media rabble as just the usual subtle democrat party trick of getting their opponent's supporters ticked off at their opponent so a significant number of those who supported their opponent in the past stay home on election day.

The Washington Post worked in lock step with the rest of the democrat scum to portray of Trump as an uncompromising Hitler but now that we're approaching the election season they've switched to portraying him as a compromising milquetoast personality when it comes to defending things his supporters expect him to support.

JMHo

46 posted on 09/01/2019 5:35:51 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: old curmudgeon

Algorithm. A logarithm is but an exponent.


47 posted on 09/01/2019 5:36:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Not even trying for “sources told the Post” but pure fiction.


48 posted on 09/01/2019 5:37:37 PM PDT by No.6
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I hope this is satire.

ML/NJ


49 posted on 09/01/2019 5:38:20 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: DesertRhino

First thing I thought of was this sounds like a Javanka idea.


50 posted on 09/01/2019 5:38:24 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
says the WaPo... feh
51 posted on 09/01/2019 5:38:53 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors, and come heavily armed!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

hopefully this is satire!
i can’t believe an intelligent man like PDJT would consider such a sicko idea for even two seconds


52 posted on 09/01/2019 5:44:43 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Its like asking PMSNBC for doing background checks and AOC as their primary investigator.


53 posted on 09/01/2019 5:58:41 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I have their spy in my hand as I type.

Your cell phone providers know all.

Google tells me I visited webpages months ago.


54 posted on 09/01/2019 6:06:31 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This is what the Washington Post says in paragraph two of their article:

Supporters see the plan as a way President Trump could move the ball forward on gun control following recent mass shootings as efforts seem to be flagging to impose harsher restrictions such as background checks on gun purchases.

The Daily Caller headline turns that into:

Trump Admin Is Considering Using Amazon Echo And Apple Watch To Determine If Citizens Should Own A Gun

WaPo says “Supporters see the plan as a way President Trump . . . “. Daily Caller turns “plan for Trump” into “Trump considering” making it look like Trump is going to the Dark Side.

A number of Freepers commenting above fell for this slight-of-hand.


55 posted on 09/01/2019 6:13:54 PM PDT by choirboy
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To: Meatspace

The President has changed his mind so often on so many issues, so who knows? I hope he stands firm behind the Second Amendment, but I’m not sure. I agree with the other poster who said this was probably a Jarvanka initiative.


56 posted on 09/01/2019 6:15:21 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker (Keep calm and vote your conscience.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This story is setting off my BS detector. There’s surely no love lost between DJT and Big Tech.


57 posted on 09/01/2019 6:15:43 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Beware Fake News.


58 posted on 09/01/2019 6:17:32 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus (<img src=(;.()))
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All hail shaman zuckencuck


59 posted on 09/01/2019 6:19:28 PM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: Advil000
Let’s withhold our pitchforks and torches until we get a direct quote from the President, shall we?

It's psy-ops 101. Discourage Trump's base with fake news.

60 posted on 09/01/2019 6:19:37 PM PDT by Drew68
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