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    What Is the Price of Free Speech?

    I've dabbled a bit too in understanding these kinds of system. CNN boards for example appear to employ an API between their discuss board and the user. It allows them to have realtime control over how post show up, gain likes, and they know who is posting as the person post. All of that is meant...
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    What Is the Price of Free Speech?

    The technology is evolving faster than the laws to control it. It's a recipe for privacy violations and the newness of this technology means it's probably being employed with relatively little oversight. What's more, because the people employing these new techniques are in uncharted territory...
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    Gooberment or the Goober Kings?

    Are you certain it isn't the other way around?
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    Gooberment or the Goober Kings?

    Orsen Welles wrote a novel about government surveillance taken to extremes. That's the reference.
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    What Is the Price of Free Speech?

    It is indeed.
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    With 900,000 Vets on Food Stamps, Obama Cuts Military Benefits

    The 20% cut in military benefits over the next 20 years boils down to a simple business choice. The cost of caring for soldiers after the war was budgeted for before the war began. When planning campaigns analyst can give estimates of the expected causalities and roughly figure how much they...
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    What Is the Price of Free Speech?

    What the average American citizen does not realize is that government intrusion that Snowden revealed only begins to scratch the surface of what they are willing to do to the average American citizen in the name of "National Security". Understand that we live in a era of big data, but it's...
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    Gooberment or the Goober Kings?

    About Big Data Policy and You: What the average American citizen does not realize is that government intrusion that Snowden revealed only begins to scratch the surface of what they are willing to do to the average American citizen in the name of "National Security". Understand that we live in a...
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