Social Networks – John Malcolm

Obama’s Data Advantage

June 9, 2012 by John Malcolm 3 Comments

By Lois Romano | June 9, 2012 | Politico

CHICAGO — On the sixth floor of a sleek office building here, more than 150 techies are quietly peeling back the layers of your life. They know what you read and where you shop, what kind of work you do and who you count as friends. They also know who your mother voted for in the last election.

The depth and breadth of the Obama campaign’s 2012 digital operation — from data mining to online organizing — reaches so far beyond anything politics has ever seen, experts maintain, that it could impact the outcome of a close presidential election. It makes the president’s much-heralded 2008 social media juggernaut — which raised half billion dollars and revolutionized politics — look like cavemen with stone tablets.

Mitt Romney indeed is ramping up his digital effort after a debilitating primary and, for sure, the notion that Democrats have a monopoly on cutting edge technology no longer holds water.

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Playing to the Right’s Strengths on the Net

June 9, 2012 by John Malcolm 1 Comment

By John Hayward | June 5, 2012 | Human Events

The McCain campaign had a notoriously poor online presence in 2008. The McCain Model T bounced and rattled across the Internet, while the Obama campaign zoomed past in one of the light cycles from Tron. Obama’s team aggressively harvested social media information, gathering it both online and in person, when young voters attended campaign rallies and rock concerts-which the cynical observer might note were virtually synonymous. Meanwhile, the McCain campaign offered a crude Web game called “Pork Busters!” in which visitors basically played “Space Invaders,” but shot at pink pigs instead of aliens.

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Pastor Sentenced To 2 Years In Prison For Teaching That Parents Should Spank Their Children

May 31, 2012 by John Malcolm 1 Comment

By Michael Snyder | May 30, 2012 | The American Dream

Do you believe that parents should be able to spank their children? Do you ever express that opinion to others? If so, then you could be sent to prison. Sadly, that is exactly what happened to one pastor up in Wisconsin recently.

A minister named Philip Caminiti was sentenced to 2 years in prison for simply teaching that parents should spank their children when they misbehave. Please note that Caminiti was not accused of spanking anyone or of physically hurting anyone. He was put in prison simply for his speech. He was put in prison simply for what he was teaching others to do. Whether you agree with spanking or not, this should be incredibly sobering for all of us. Increasingly, speech is being penalized in the United States. Much of the time, the focus of the attacks by the forces of political correctness is on religious speech. If this trend continues, many of you that are reading this article might be put in jail for the things that you say in the coming years.

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FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit

May 26, 2012 by John Malcolm 1 Comment

By Declan McCullagh | May 22, 2012 | CNET

CNET has learned that the FBI has formed a Domestic Communications Assistance Center, which is tasked with developing new electronic surveillance technologies, including intercepting Internet, wireless, and VoIP communications.

The FBI has recently formed a secretive surveillance unit with an ambitious goal: to invent technology that will let police more readily eavesdrop on Internet and wireless communications.

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New York Legislation Would Ban Anonymous Online Speech

May 23, 2012 by John Malcolm 1 Comment

By David Kravets | May 22, 2012 | Wired Magazine

Did you hear the one about the New York state lawmakers who forgot about the First Amendment in the name of combating cyber-bullying and “baseless political attacks”?

Proposed legislation in both chambers would require New York-based websites, such as blogs and newspapers, to “remove any comments posted on his or her website by an anonymous poster unless such anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post.”

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