I got on the MoveOn email list in the 2012 campaign and remember how proud they were that the Marxist Messiah, aided by MoveOn/Soros dollars, was using this new technology to “reach” millions of new voters. They called it the future and giggled at how the Republicans couldn’t harness the technology.
it’s all in the effort to make every action by Trump abnormal. Just like Trump’s efforts to delegitimize Mueller’s probe, the NYT and others cheered Bill Clinton’s efforts to delegitimize Starr. I saw some woman on FOX yesterday who said that Trump’s action is different, because he’s “attacking institutions like the FBI, State Dept, Dept of Justice” but she never mentioned those fine institutions have been working against Trump long before he started fighting them.
Everything is cool when Democrats do it.
Facebook encouraged the 'take-it-all' data dump; it's not hard to store that kind of data, or purpose it as you please.
AGAIN, get off Facebook, drop it today, YOU are the product. You might say, 'oh, well, Trump has my data, that's cool' ... scroll up a bit - so did Bobo!
You cool with Bobo knowing your friends, your salary, your purchases, your rants, your likes, your habits, your location?
Doesn’t ANYONE read those 40 page disclaimers any more?
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Great article, I’m posting it on FB right now.
Not Everyone.......
Here is a link to a particularly laudatory and detailed article from MIT's Technology Review (2012):
How Obama Used Big Data to Rally Voters
From what I've heard, if there is a problem with what Cambridge Analytica did, it was using "one-time" or specified use data over and over. That's a contractual problem separate from the invasiveness of using such data in the first place, which was encouraged by Facebook (and probably Google). We know it was encouraged, because they sold it to all comers!
‘Harvesting’ data doesn’t get anybody off their rear-end and into a voting booth. This analytic frenzy is purely hype brought to the forefront by greedy computer geeks. The same geeks that convinced everybody that Y2K would be the end of computers, unless they were given trillions to stop it.
If this sort of stuff works on anybody, it would be the weak minded and typically those voters who tend to be liberal and who are more likely to engage in social computing. It’s like guiding a lemming... Just tell them there’s a rally for something and they’ll be there in 10 minutes. Tell them the election day is on Monday and they will likely be too glued to their computer to actually bother getting off their butt and voting.
This is the quintessence of the reasons why democrats in washington can get away with murder without causing a light ripple let alone consequences, and republicans (particularly those outside teh establishment, cough trump cough) have their every footstep criticized.
These people are fully mental. They don’t have a shred of integrity. They don’t even have any guile about it. It’s all about ‘our side versus theirs’ and absolutely nothing else.
And yet ironically, simply posting on social media is a worse crime.
Isn’t the entire business model of Facebook to collect data on its users and sell that data ? I always thought it was
Lets step back and think for a few seconds. Isn’t the whole purpose of elections and representation to ensure that politicians follow the “will of the people?”
Isn’t this data mining thing just a way to better determine the will of the people?
I am not a facebook user, but I would love to have the goobermint take my opinions and feelings into account more than they do.
Now if they are using the data to drum up support for stupid ideas, that is a negative. But if they are using this as a super opinion poll, and then crafting policy to appeal, that is the whole idea behind elections.
YOUTUBE- Per Maxine Waters Obama has the kind of Data Base that no one has seen before-2013