How dare the Bush Administration spy on us like this! Oh, wait...

[lwcon]

It's now Obama's CIA, so it's all good.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/exclusive-us-spies-buy-stake-in-twitter-blog-monitoring-firm/

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

1. Obama loves me. I trust him.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. How dare other people read messages I've posted publically on the internet!

What's next? Potential employers look at my drunken black face meth parties I've been posting on facebook?

[phleshdef]

4. LOL, I just read your post, that means I spied on you!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. You Facist!

You as bad as Stalin and Hitler put together!

[SemiCharmedQuark]

6. There was an actual thread a couple of days ago arguing something similar to that.

It was basically saying that Obama was like Hitler and Stalin.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. Yeah, I saw it.

What a joke.

[phleshdef]

3. Um, for one this is public information they are analyzing, for 2, the problem was NEVER Bush spying.

...it was the Bush administration spying while attempting to bypass FISA. But go ahead with your bad self and your revisionist history and blowing stuff out of proportion and all that. You seem to enjoy it.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

12. I always find it odd that people have an expectation for privacy on the internet

Example 1: Obama's speechwriter
Example 2-900: Republicans that have been caught with racist emails, images, comments, etc.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

7. If you post it in a public place, how is it spying?

[Baltoman991]

8. Would this OP

qualify as an EPIC fail in yet another attempt to link Obama to Bush? I think so.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. Quite sad, really.

In a humorous sort of way.

[Occam Bandage]

11. How is statistical analysis of public information "spying on you?"

If you post things on the internet, anyone can read them. That's kind of the point.

[zulchzulu]

13. The article basically says what anyone with 3 brain cells already knew

Your tweets, your reviews, your blog posts, your PhotoBucket Photoshop mashups... are all available for anyone to check out and use... including the CIA...

:scared:

Wow. Who woulda thunk...

[SemiCharmedQuark]

15. But your Amazon book reviews!!! Those are sacrosanct!

[Occam Bandage]

17. Hey, look at the bright side.

If the CIA's got a crawler bot analyzing keywords on the average blog, they've most likely doubled that blog's audience.

[lwcon]

14. Hey, y'all, put this to the WIBDI test

http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/3/1641-wibdi-a-prism-for-the-new-paradigm.html

Would you think having the CI fucking A profiling American bloggers, twitterers, etc. was a great thing under Bush? Really?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

16. I don't think it's a great thing...it's just a thing.

Anyone...ANYONE can read your posts at any time. Google yourself and see. This isn't personal emails, this is blog posts and Twitter.

On Edit: And yes, under Bush, I had no expectation of privacy for things posted on internet forums either.

[lwcon]

19. This isn't about reading posts

It's about the CIA making automated dossiers rating how "positive" your posts are.

That's not at all creepy, is it?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

21. Not particularly.

Again, you can google me and find out how positive I am and what I believe in anyway.

On Edit: Also, they are monitoring keystrokes, not "profiling bloggers"

[Occam Bandage]

20. There's a difference between statistical analysis of keyword frequency and "profiling bloggers."

They're not doing anything but looking at what topics people are discussing, and how information flows. Guess what? Most major corporations are beginning to do the exact same thing. The blogosphere is the biggest new marketing resource in history.

[phleshdef]

23. Wouldn't give 2 shits. If its legal and done within the accountable bounds of American law, fine.

Are you ready to admit how big of a fail this thread was now?

[hileeopnyn8d]

18. I hope there's a plugin that

crawls the internet for stupidity too! It would be nice to stamp out internet stupidity at the same time.

I'll bookmark this thread for when the technology becomes available. :P

[dionysus]

22. oh elevens!!11!1!11

damn.