Monday, October 20, 2014

If you take to Twitter to express your views on a hot-button issue, does the government have an interest in deciding whether you are spreading “misinformation’’?

The government wants to study ‘social pollution’ on Twitter. Well, of course they do.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't use ANY social media web sites. I advise anyone to do the same. Social media web sites are a BAD idea! The use of them destroys your privacy.

- Old Greybeard

Unclezip said...

I would like to see a comprehensive study on the political and moral pollution that has overcome the District of Criminals.

Mitch Rapp said...

Good! The stuff I tweet is gonna piss them off something fierce! If I can piss off a liberal during my day, it's been a great day!

Mitch Rapp said...

I attack an ideology. I state the truth about liberalism. I never really attack people personally. I make fun of them, ridicule them, call them names. It's all right out of Saul D. Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals".

RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions."

Use it, folks. Give 'em a taste of their own damn medicine!

Mitch Rapp said...

RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)

Mitch Rapp said...

RULE 10: “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management’s wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side.)

Mitch Rapp said...

RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

Jones - Texas said...

Hmm.. Since they obviously cannot do "Racial Purity", do you think they will replace it with "Social Purity" ??

Paul X said...

A government "reasearch" team called "Truthy"? Why don't they just go whole hog and call it the Ministry of Truth?

Anonymous said...

there was an opening volley against
crowdfunding in Popullar Mechanics
recently, in case you missed it (you
actually have been sent a copy)
Joe Bargmann. "Crowdfunding Gets Weird"
strangers are giving strangers money for
strange things at an alarming rate and
that might not be a good thing.

Anonymous said...

Rules are handy and will work on rookie bosses but the old timers that really run the show will quickly replace the broken ones. After a while it becomes a game of opposing the masses just for amusement no matter how simple a change the people are marching for might be it aint happen. Until we are selling it we will tell you when you need it. Tell then you dont get it!

Anonymous said...

The Government having access to the largest "Data Lakes" of information is a bad, bad deal for everyone. They have Big Data Scientists than think of nothing but what questions/answers/how to ask them/what to say/etc.. and the Big Data Analytics to get the answers. Everything posted is data and is saved and does run through some analytics algorithm. The Government should not have access to any of this. Instead they have access to everything.