Please read White House Has Plan To Data Mine Social Networks. President Bush did far, far less than this due to legitimate national security concerns and the Left went unhinged. Now President Obama is planning vastly more intrusive methods and for vastly inferior reasons and the Left can’t even manage a yawn!
It is funny to me that the left calls us paranoid over things like this. Or Obama wanting to indoctrinate our kids by addressing K-6 kids in public schools on Sept. 8.
Yet these are the very people that were convinced that Bush was reading every private email sent for the last few years! Priceless.
Neil,
I was ROFLing when I read the following headline at Ace of Spades HQ (a rather… ehhem, low brow but hilarious conservative blog. I don’t advise *anyone* reading the comments section there. Seriously):
Old Obama: The American People Elected Me to Pass This Popular Legislation They Desperately Want
New Obama: The American People Elected Me to Have the Guts to Pass This Unpopular Legislation They Don’t Want
Isn’t it strange that the premises shift, but the conclusion remains the same.
I, for one, am drunk on schadenfreude over the total implosion King Barry has experienced in the polls over the last month. 18 points over 6 weeks– Nixon didn’t even fall that badly.
Disturbing. I’ll have to let my friends know about this. I’ll put it up on Facebook. Hopefully it won’t get deleted.
CALM DOWN EVERYBODY!!!!!
Take the time to read things before freaking out. I just finished reading the document (all the relevant info in on the first few pages – the rest is just legal details of the contract). The objective of this plan is to archive communications MADE BY THE WHITE HOUSE and archive PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE comments made by people on those sites.
I do this for my company all the time. Twitter comments can get lost, and in some cases are dropped from the server, and the same goes for Facebook. They want to archive the comments in the same way that all other communications to the president are archived.
There is no difference between this initiative and putting a filing cabinet in the white house to store letters that have been sent to the president.
I am a HUGE advocate of privacy, and of keeping the government out of my communications. I spearheaded an initiative to move my companies data out of the US when the patriot act was introduced, since it gave the US government the right to view our customer data without any warrant.
I would raise hell if the government was allowed to access any private data from any of these companies, but this is not the case with this initiative.