Why Lefties Love Government: Your tax dollars used to fund "science" used to ban conservative speech

[Rikurzhen]

It's a trifecta for Totalitarian Liberalism:

The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee sent a letter to the head of the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Monday, demanding answers about the origins of the nearly $1 million taxpayer-funded project to track “misinformation” on Twitter.

The Truthy project, being conducted by researchers at Indiana University, is under investigation for targeting political commentary on Twitter. The project monitors “suspicious memes,” “false and misleading ideas,” and “hate speech,” with a goal of one day being able to automatically detect false rumors on the social media platform.

The web service has been used to track tweets using hashtags such as #tcot (Top Conservatives on Twitter), and was successful in getting accounts associated with conservatives suspended, according to a 2012 book co-authored by the project’s lead researcher, Filippo Menczer, a professor of Informatics and Computer Science at Indiana University.​

 

[jon_berzerk]

 

[TheOldSchool]

Oh God...

Is this the brand of stupid that's taken over government since last Tuesday?

Oh man...

Aaarghhh it's too stupid!!!!! Aaaarrrrgghhh!!!!!

 

[Saigon]

As soon as I see the word "lefty" I know we're dealing with nonsense.

Is it so hard for people to use real words with real meanings. When was the last time you saw anyone on this forum use 'righty'?

 

[Rotagilla]

As soon as I see the word "lefty" I know we're dealing with nonsense.

Is it so hard for people to use real words with real meanings. When was the last time you saw anyone on this forum use 'righty'?

"righty" would be tame. We aren't going to wander off topic discussing all the names the left calls people...Now stop pretending...it makes you look sillier than usual.

 

[S.J.]

As soon as I see the word "lefty" I know we're dealing with nonsense.

Is it so hard for people to use real words with real meanings. When was the last time you saw anyone on this forum use 'righty'?

You have other words.

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

Get ready scumbags. You'll have a lot to answer for in the next six years...at least.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Oh God...

Is this the brand of stupid that's taken over government since last Tuesday?

Oh man...

Aaarghhh it's too stupid!!!!! Aaaarrrrgghhh!!!!!

You are one weird chick since the drubbing you libs took in the midterms.

 

[Billy000]

It's a trifecta for Totalitarian Liberalism:

The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee sent a letter to the head of the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Monday, demanding answers about the origins of the nearly $1 million taxpayer-funded project to track “misinformation” on Twitter.

The Truthy project, being conducted by researchers at Indiana University, is under investigation for targeting political commentary on Twitter. The project monitors “suspicious memes,” “false and misleading ideas,” and “hate speech,” with a goal of one day being able to automatically detect false rumors on the social media platform.

The web service has been used to track tweets using hashtags such as #tcot (Top Conservatives on Twitter), and was successful in getting accounts associated with conservatives suspended, according to a 2012 book co-authored by the project’s lead researcher, Filippo Menczer, a professor of Informatics and Computer Science at Indiana University.​

So your conclusion is that "lefties" conspire together to silence the speech of the rightwing?

 

[Rikurzhen]

It's a trifecta for Totalitarian Liberalism:

The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee sent a letter to the head of the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Monday, demanding answers about the origins of the nearly $1 million taxpayer-funded project to track “misinformation” on Twitter.

The Truthy project, being conducted by researchers at Indiana University, is under investigation for targeting political commentary on Twitter. The project monitors “suspicious memes,” “false and misleading ideas,” and “hate speech,” with a goal of one day being able to automatically detect false rumors on the social media platform.

The web service has been used to track tweets using hashtags such as #tcot (Top Conservatives on Twitter), and was successful in getting accounts associated with conservatives suspended, according to a 2012 book co-authored by the project’s lead researcher, Filippo Menczer, a professor of Informatics and Computer Science at Indiana University.​

So your conclusion is that "lefties" conspire together to silence the speech of the rightwing?

Been on a university campus lately?

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

It's a trifecta for Totalitarian Liberalism:

The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee sent a letter to the head of the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Monday, demanding answers about the origins of the nearly $1 million taxpayer-funded project to track “misinformation” on Twitter.

The Truthy project, being conducted by researchers at Indiana University, is under investigation for targeting political commentary on Twitter. The project monitors “suspicious memes,” “false and misleading ideas,” and “hate speech,” with a goal of one day being able to automatically detect false rumors on the social media platform.

The web service has been used to track tweets using hashtags such as #tcot (Top Conservatives on Twitter), and was successful in getting accounts associated with conservatives suspended, according to a 2012 book co-authored by the project’s lead researcher, Filippo Menczer, a professor of Informatics and Computer Science at Indiana University.​

So your conclusion is that "lefties" conspire together to silence the speech of the rightwing?

Of course they do. They've been trying to get rid of talk radio for years.

 

[Rikurzhen]

University of Oregon:

Happily, Associated Students of the University of Oregon (ASUO) Senate Vice President Miles Sisk seems to be having trouble carrying out his threat to report anonymous bloggers to the administration. Nevertheless, students at UO still have reason to worry about their freedom of speech on campus.

Two weeks ago, Sisk characterized students criticizing Senate members on the internet as “cyber-bullying.” According to UO student newspaper the Daily Emerald, Sisk demanded that blogs engaging in this speech be shut down, and he threatened to report the IP addresses of those running the blogs to the administration if they remained online. Sisk called the bloggers “criminals,” and Senate President Rebecca Rhodes called the blogs “completely unacceptable.”

The Daily Emerald wrote that “[t]he exact blogs in question have not been revealed, but repeat offenders ASUO Conservative Problems and ASUO Progressive Problems — which created controversy in the ASUO last year — are suspects.” Though FIRE staff members haven’t combed through the entire archives of the Tumblr blogs at issue, we’ve checked out quite a few posts and have yet to find even one that comes anywhere close to containing true threats or other speech that would be unprotected by the First Amendment at a public university like UO. (Feel free to decide for yourself, using the links above.) Of course, the burden is on would-be censors like Sisk and Rhodes to demonstrate how the specific expression they would shut down or punish is unprotected. There’s no suggestion in any reporting on the issue that Sisk or Rhodes have even attempted to do so.

What Oregon students should be most concerned about is the fact that their elected leaders are trying to censor criticism of student senators rather than simply responding to the opinions expressed on the blogs or inviting students to discuss their remarks further. Sisk seems unable to distinguish between statements that might hurt someone’s feelings and harassment or other punishable conduct.

It’s not surprising that Sisk would have this trouble, however. After all, the UO administration doesn’t seem to understand this distinction, either. UO maintains several speech codes that are either unconstitutionally broad or can easily be used to punish protected speech. For example, UO’s harassment policy prohibits “nreasonable insults, gestures, or abusive words” that may cause “emotional distress”—a range of expression far broader than what is considered harassment under the law.​

 

[Billy000]

It's a trifecta for Totalitarian Liberalism:

The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee sent a letter to the head of the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Monday, demanding answers about the origins of the nearly $1 million taxpayer-funded project to track “misinformation” on Twitter.

The Truthy project, being conducted by researchers at Indiana University, is under investigation for targeting political commentary on Twitter. The project monitors “suspicious memes,” “false and misleading ideas,” and “hate speech,” with a goal of one day being able to automatically detect false rumors on the social media platform.

The web service has been used to track tweets using hashtags such as #tcot (Top Conservatives on Twitter), and was successful in getting accounts associated with conservatives suspended, according to a 2012 book co-authored by the project’s lead researcher, Filippo Menczer, a professor of Informatics and Computer Science at Indiana University.​

So your conclusion is that "lefties" conspire together to silence the speech of the rightwing?

Been on a university campus lately?

You've never taken classes at one before have you?

 

[Kosh]

It's a trifecta for Totalitarian Liberalism:

The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee sent a letter to the head of the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Monday, demanding answers about the origins of the nearly $1 million taxpayer-funded project to track “misinformation” on Twitter.

The Truthy project, being conducted by researchers at Indiana University, is under investigation for targeting political commentary on Twitter. The project monitors “suspicious memes,” “false and misleading ideas,” and “hate speech,” with a goal of one day being able to automatically detect false rumors on the social media platform.

The web service has been used to track tweets using hashtags such as #tcot (Top Conservatives on Twitter), and was successful in getting accounts associated with conservatives suspended, according to a 2012 book co-authored by the project’s lead researcher, Filippo Menczer, a professor of Informatics and Computer Science at Indiana University.​

So your conclusion is that "lefties" conspire together to silence the speech of the rightwing?

Been on a university campus lately?

You've never taken classes at one before have you?

So in other words you admit that the far left has been hijacking as many class rooms as they can to peach far left religious dogma..

 

[bripat9643]

Oh God...

Is this the brand of stupid that's taken over government since last Tuesday?

Oh man...

Aaarghhh it's too stupid!!!!! Aaaarrrrgghhh!!!!!

What's stupid about it? Aside, of course, from the fact that those ideas are exactly the ideas behind the liberal tax agenda.

 

[bripat9643]

It's a trifecta for Totalitarian Liberalism:

The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee sent a letter to the head of the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Monday, demanding answers about the origins of the nearly $1 million taxpayer-funded project to track “misinformation” on Twitter.

The Truthy project, being conducted by researchers at Indiana University, is under investigation for targeting political commentary on Twitter. The project monitors “suspicious memes,” “false and misleading ideas,” and “hate speech,” with a goal of one day being able to automatically detect false rumors on the social media platform.

The web service has been used to track tweets using hashtags such as #tcot (Top Conservatives on Twitter), and was successful in getting accounts associated with conservatives suspended, according to a 2012 book co-authored by the project’s lead researcher, Filippo Menczer, a professor of Informatics and Computer Science at Indiana University.​

So your conclusion is that "lefties" conspire together to silence the speech of the rightwing?

Yes, that's exactly what the left does.

 

[Billy000]

It's a trifecta for Totalitarian Liberalism:

The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee sent a letter to the head of the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Monday, demanding answers about the origins of the nearly $1 million taxpayer-funded project to track “misinformation” on Twitter.

The Truthy project, being conducted by researchers at Indiana University, is under investigation for targeting political commentary on Twitter. The project monitors “suspicious memes,” “false and misleading ideas,” and “hate speech,” with a goal of one day being able to automatically detect false rumors on the social media platform.

The web service has been used to track tweets using hashtags such as #tcot (Top Conservatives on Twitter), and was successful in getting accounts associated with conservatives suspended, according to a 2012 book co-authored by the project’s lead researcher, Filippo Menczer, a professor of Informatics and Computer Science at Indiana University.​

So your conclusion is that "lefties" conspire together to silence the speech of the rightwing?

Of course they do. They've been trying to get rid of talk radio for years.

Who exactly?

 

[Billy000]

It's a trifecta for Totalitarian Liberalism:

The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee sent a letter to the head of the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Monday, demanding answers about the origins of the nearly $1 million taxpayer-funded project to track “misinformation” on Twitter.

The Truthy project, being conducted by researchers at Indiana University, is under investigation for targeting political commentary on Twitter. The project monitors “suspicious memes,” “false and misleading ideas,” and “hate speech,” with a goal of one day being able to automatically detect false rumors on the social media platform.

The web service has been used to track tweets using hashtags such as #tcot (Top Conservatives on Twitter), and was successful in getting accounts associated with conservatives suspended, according to a 2012 book co-authored by the project’s lead researcher, Filippo Menczer, a professor of Informatics and Computer Science at Indiana University.​

So your conclusion is that "lefties" conspire together to silence the speech of the rightwing?

Yes, that's exactly what the left does.

Who on the left? Anyone? Some?

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

It's a trifecta for Totalitarian Liberalism:

The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee sent a letter to the head of the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Monday, demanding answers about the origins of the nearly $1 million taxpayer-funded project to track “misinformation” on Twitter.

The Truthy project, being conducted by researchers at Indiana University, is under investigation for targeting political commentary on Twitter. The project monitors “suspicious memes,” “false and misleading ideas,” and “hate speech,” with a goal of one day being able to automatically detect false rumors on the social media platform.

The web service has been used to track tweets using hashtags such as #tcot (Top Conservatives on Twitter), and was successful in getting accounts associated with conservatives suspended, according to a 2012 book co-authored by the project’s lead researcher, Filippo Menczer, a professor of Informatics and Computer Science at Indiana University.​

So your conclusion is that "lefties" conspire together to silence the speech of the rightwing?

Of course they do. They've been trying to get rid of talk radio for years.

Who exactly?

Seriously? Dumbass liberals..denying the truth since 1960.

 

[bripat9643]

It's a trifecta for Totalitarian Liberalism:

The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee sent a letter to the head of the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Monday, demanding answers about the origins of the nearly $1 million taxpayer-funded project to track “misinformation” on Twitter.

The Truthy project, being conducted by researchers at Indiana University, is under investigation for targeting political commentary on Twitter. The project monitors “suspicious memes,” “false and misleading ideas,” and “hate speech,” with a goal of one day being able to automatically detect false rumors on the social media platform.

The web service has been used to track tweets using hashtags such as #tcot (Top Conservatives on Twitter), and was successful in getting accounts associated with conservatives suspended, according to a 2012 book co-authored by the project’s lead researcher, Filippo Menczer, a professor of Informatics and Computer Science at Indiana University.​

So your conclusion is that "lefties" conspire together to silence the speech of the rightwing?

Of course they do. They've been trying to get rid of talk radio for years.

Who exactly?

Did you read the post above?