Showing posts with label social media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social media. Show all posts

Sunday, August 18, 2019

THE STUDY OF FAKE NEWS: Laura Loomer’s hate speech and the Christchurch, New Zealand mass murder – a CrowdSource The Truth case study


EDITORIAL

DEVELOPING JUSTIFICATION TO DISRUPT AND INTERDICT SOCIAL MEDIA ANTI-GOVERNMENT GROUPS HIDING BEHIND VAGUE BRANDING

(ABEL DANGER & CROWDSOURCE THE TRUTH)


SSI_Cover_Sheet

INTRODUCTION


BACKGROUND.   U.S. domestic counter-terrorism efforts are woefully behind international counter-terrorism efforts.  Specifically, domestic counter-terrorism does not address potential threats within the realm of social media where hate speech foments.
Threats such as the Call To Action (CTA) to close the Port of Charleston, South Carolina with a dirty bomb (June 14, 2017) should be taken seriously.  Social media CTA broadcasts have the potential to organize followers into a specific course of action.

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Thursday, January 31, 2019

Thursday, January 17, 2019

Nancy Pelosi Issues Letter of Rescission On Trump SOTU 2019 Invitation - Forgets About FDR, MLK, DACA & Twitter

FDR delivers his 1944 State of the Union address
FDR 1944 SOTU for the first time on radio
On January 3, 2019, U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, formally invited President Trump to deliver the State of the Union Address in the congress.

On January 16, 2019, Nancy issues a letter of rescission of invitation to deliver the 2019 SOTU address, citing security concerns, and instead, referencing the established tradition of Woodrow Wilson delivering it through the written form of a letter.

I do not know the timeline, but a few moments (minutes) later that day, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, shared a tweet of reassurance in any issues of national security for SOTU.

FUN FACT! PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT DELIVERED HIS 1944 SOTU FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY VIA THE NEW PLATFORM OF RADIO.

I bet Trump uses Twitter, livestreamed being picked up on multiple platforms, including independent media, through social media, via the networks of the friends and families of the world in the blockchain being constructed.

But, hey, what do I know.

I know Nancy was mean to my Sweetie and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is Monday.


Remarks by President Trump at Signing of Proclamation to Honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day



President Donald J. Trump Proclaims the 50th Anniversary of the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


I also know U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is also in the SCOTUS fast track queue with Trump on the trafficking of tiny humans, which makes Nancy utterly terrified, which I know as fact because I am the original source.

PELOSI SLAMS DHS CLAIM OF BEING PREPPED FOR SOTU: ‘I DON’T CARE WHAT THEY SAID’


#sayhisname Nancy.

WASHINGTON—House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Wednesday night she “doesn’t care” if the Secret Service said it was prepared to appropriately secure the State of the Union address despite the partial government shutdown.

Instead, she stood firm in her resolve to delay the January 29 event until the government completely re-opens.

 RELATED: Pelosi Seeks To Delay State Of The Union Until Shutdown Is Over)

In a letter to President Trump, Pelosi claimed the lack of funds to Homeland Security posed a risk to the White House and the Congress during the event, but the Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen released a statement refuting that. She shared that statement in a Tweet:
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn agreed with Pelosi, telling The Daily Caller, “I just happen to be reading about Woodrow Wilson’s 1913 address and it is the first time since eighteen hundred that it was delivered in person. So there’s ample precedent for the State of the Union to be delivered in writing.”

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise called Democrats’ security concerns nonsense, telling reporters on Wednesday, “There are no security concerns that have been raised and that has nothing to do with that. Ironically, it seems like she’s only concerned about security when it’s a State of the Union that will expose what this fight is all about.”



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Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Friday, November 30, 2018

A Modern Issue Of Civil Rights - Roseanne Was Denied Due Process



Is Rosanne playing in a school play? 

Look at the model. 

This is going after the ethics of a civil society in the issue of speech. 

Pay attention to the legal of social media and how we conduct ourselves in the new cyberverse.

She is showing how smears and attacks without due process affects the lives of individuals.

She never had her time.

This is asset forfeiture of her legacy.

How come she never litigated?

This is so damn hot.

This is a modern issue of civil rights where social media is now a platform for justice.

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Monday, October 22, 2018

DOJ: Indictment Model For Fake Lobbying, Fake Congressional Documents, With Forged Signatures

It seems the Carolinas are having their way with "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) when it comes to fraud.

In order to claim the legal status of a whistleblower, one must first report through formal mechanisms established under the rule of law.

You cannot go around, using fake profiles, in some instances, on social media, representing yourself as singular letter, or as someone claiming to be engaging in "internet vigilante justice", for lack of a better description, producing bogus, public reports, which are videos for some, without any form of legal scrutiny, soliciting online investments for your online funding accounts, for purposes of furthering your fraudulent activities, and you cannot take foreign money for doing it.

It is like going around anonymously calling Child Protective Services, pointing fingers at random people accusing them of child abuse, then soliciting funding for your actions.

That is not a whistleblower, that is a predator.

It is also the same as funding propaganda with foreign money to interfere in an election, even if the origin of the money started out as tax payer dollars, laundered to overseas accounts, and back in to the U.S. online social media manipulative psychoptics.

In this case, we have an individual who has sworn an oath as a licensed attorney, registered as a lobbyist, engaged in a bold & cold financial fraud scheme, with bogus reports generated and filed with the Library of Congress and the National Archives, across state lines.

This sounds like Hobbs Act stuff.

This interference with the obviation of the Congress is but only one, of a multitude of complex fraud schemes, that have yet to see the light of day.

I am quite sure there will be more to come from this one when it comes to fake lobbying, and fake congressional letters, with forged signature of a member of congress, being entered into the formal congressional record.


Former Lobbyist Indicted for Obstruction of Justice

A former lobbyist was charged in an indictment with obstructing justice in connection with an ongoing federal investigation and proceedings concerning a multi-million dollar high-yield investment fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.  
Christopher Petrella, 51, of Greer, South Carolina, was arrested yesterday and charged in the Western District of North Carolina with one count of obstruction of justice.  
Ten individuals had been previously indicted by a Charlotte grand jury for their alleged roles in a high-yield investment scheme involving Niyato Industries Inc.  The charges in that case allege that the defendants raised money from investors by representing that Niyato manufactured electric and compressed natural gas (“CNG”) automobiles when, in truth, the company had no facilities, no operations, and no capability to manufacture anything.  That case is scheduled for trial.     
The indictment returned on Tuesday and unsealed yesterday alleges that Petrella, who worked to promote Niyato and purportedly lobbied on Niyato’s behalf, attempted to obstruct, influence and impede the ongoing federal investigation into the alleged Niyato fraud, as well as the upcoming trial, by misleading federal law enforcement about his own involvement with Niyato and by portraying himself as a whistleblower.  Petrella is alleged to have produced to a federal law enforcement agent a bogus “quarterly report” related to his lobbying work for Niyato.  According to the indictment, Petrella also falsely claimed he had filed the “quarterly report” with the U.S. Congress pursuant to certain requirements applicable to federal lobbyists.  The bogus “quarterly report” purportedly disclosed to authorities that certain individuals had made false and misleading statements about Niyato’s business and operations on Niyato’s Twitter and Facebook pages.  In reality, the indictment alleges that the “quarterly report” Petrella produced to federal law enforcement was a sham and Petrella’s statement that he had filed the document with the U.S. Congress was false. 
Petrella’s initial court appearance is scheduled on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 10:40 a.m. before Magistrate Judge David S. Cayer in the Western District of North Carolina.
An indictment is merely an allegation and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. 
This case was investigated by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.  Trial Attorneys William Bowne and Christopher Fenton of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section are prosecuting the case.

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Saturday, July 28, 2018

DOJ: Rod Rosenstein Forgot To Mention Child Welfare At Aspen Institute Cybersecurity Conference, Again

Oh, Rod...

You were so close...almost there...

You failed to address child welfare fraud in election interference. 

You forgot to mention all those abandoned identities of children whose parents have had their parental rights terminated, when the States took the grant of custodianship and guardianship, that got  the kiddies new identities when they were adopted out.

Then, you forgot to mention all those kids who are ghosts in the system, or rather those under the aegis of a State's child welfare system, where these corporate parents will do the absentee ballot fraud scheme, filling out the votes the way they want, and were paid to do.

Lest I not forget to mention the sustainability issues of life for "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth) who lost their voting rights due to manufactured poverty, where they lost their homes to fake tax and mortgage foreclosures through public corruption schemes, I believe you are quite familiar with, including the crumbling infrastructure of public education and access to internet.


Then, there is the suppression of my work, online and in the U.S. MIED and State of Michigan, on the omitted subject matter of your speech, because it all started in child welfare.

Hey, while you are hanging out with the Aspen Institute, let me know what they are up to when it comes to their revenue maximization schemes in child trafficking.


Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is expected to make a "cybersecurity policy announcement" during his remarks at The Aspen Institute's Aspen Security Forum.

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Tuesday, July 17, 2018

JUDICIARY: Facebook, Google and Twitter: Examining the Content Filtering Practices of Social Media Giants



I actually stopped watching midway because all the damn lying was making me itch.

How in the living hell are Facebook, Twitter, and especially Google, going to sit up there and regurgitate some old school masticated internal control policy, directly stemming from that "pre-Emancipation Proclamation" era on how they are going to pick their own smarty pants people to tell "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth) who have no money to go to the over-administratively, bloated "Dumb, Fat & Happy" tenured professors who will perform any trick in the world to get their work published so their overseer Messieurs keep doling out those federal research grants so they can continue to party, from either sides of the political aisle, that they can tell what is fake or real news, and how they are going to suppress it?

I wish to enter into the record, of which I actually did, on how these internet giants, along with their child welfare NGOs, suppress on their platforms.

Try out a few of these search terms and tell me whatcha come up with.

John Conyers

Beverly Tran 

Child Welfare Fraud

Perkins Coie Sucks

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Sunday, May 13, 2018

DEFANGO: The Cicada 3301 Expose Long Cut

For those who are into Cicada 3301.


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Thursday, April 26, 2018

JUDICIARY: Diamond & Silk On Social Media, Net Neutrality, Facebook, Twitter

U.S. House Judiciary
Judiciary seems to be coming into the technical world of social media.

Diamond & Silk speak on Facebook and Youtube suppression.

There are counter testimonies discussing moderating and net neutrality.

I have no competition online, so why am I being censored?

I publish the activities of Judiciary and DOJ, yet, I get banned on social media.

Consider me and my work entered into the official record, as an original source, that social media platforms and search engine algorithms intentionally suppress me...my Sweetie.

Google and see for yourself.
  • Beverly Tran
  • John Conyers, Jr.
  • Child Welfare Fraud
That is mean.

This is all about predictive modeling and databases and it started in child welfare.

This is how the congressional vote is manipulated through false advisement of the public record through privatization.

There are no civil rights in privatization.

This is one example of how they stole the vote.



Hank Johnson reduced the issue of suppression to one of Diamond & Silk using the Free Speech issue to one of implying that they are sack chasers.

He reduced the gravity of the situation to a degrading position of moral turpitude.

Jerrold Nadler is clearly not very good with statistics.

Sheila Jackson Lee is going nasty and has demonstrated that she lacks the sophistication of social media in an attempt to smear Diamond & Silk of being Russian operatives, attacking Oprah, accusing them of lying.

So much for advocating civil rights.

Sheila Jackson Lee reminds me of a wounded animal, backed up into a corner.

Did you do something mean to my Sweetie, Sheila?

Let us sit back and see the stats on this particular post.

Ted Deutch wants to to regulate morality.

Hakeem Jefferies pulled FEC Trump reports threatening perjury charges for Diamond & Silk regarding campaign field operations, but, to me, this sounds like an introduction into other FEC fraudulent campaign filings, like filings from "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending).

#perkinscoiesucks 

Ted Lieu ridiculed the idea of free speech regulation of social media in the fairness doctrine by bringing in privatization.

He also said "Pizzagate".

Nice intro into the discussions.

Jamie Raskin is opening the doors, probably unwittingly, to blockchain because we are going quantum computing with full encryption and the need to discuss the trust funds.

It was at this point the live feed froze on Youtube.
 
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Friday, February 16, 2018

Russian Trolls Campaign For Hillary & Her Child Welfare Magnitsky Fraud Scheme

These "Russian Trolls" were not working in coordination with the Trump Campaign, they were working on behalf of the Clinton Campaign, DNC, Clinton Foundation, Bush Foundation, and all the other actors who had financial interests in lifting the Magnitsky Act ban to keep their global child welfare money laundering operations going.

These are the actors who dumbed down the U.S. education and helth care system to manipulate the masses to vote for Hillary, based off meme magic and fun rally events.

Child trafficking exists and whether or not you chose to continue ignoring the fact that our children, land and votes are being stolen, the truth will come out.

What do you chose to believe?



I wonder if Perkins Coie was the law firm to pay the Internet Research Agency.


WASHINGTON – The Justice Department’s special counsel announced the indictment Friday of a notorious Russian troll farm – charging 13 individuals who allegedly were involved in a scheme to criminally interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

The Internet Research Agency, which is based in St. Petersburg, Russia, was named in the indictment.

“From in or around 2014 to the present, defendants knowingly and intentionally conspired with each other (and with persons known and unknown to the grand jury) to defraud the United States by impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of the government through fraud and deceit for the purpose of interfering with the U.S. political and electoral processes, including the presidential election of 2016,” the indictment states.

The indictment charges that some of the Russian suspects traveled to the United States to gather information to help in the scheme, and that they also impersonated Americans online in order to try to sway voters’ opinions. None of those charged are in custody, according to Peter Carr, a spokesman for the special counsel’s office.

The grand jury charges that some of those suspects interacted with Americans associated with the Trump campaign, but those Trump associates did not realize they were being manipulated.

Some of the Russians posed as U.S. persons and, without revealing their Russian identities, “communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities,” the indictment said.

By February 2016, the suspects had decided whom they were supporting in the 2016 race. According to the indictment, Internet Research Agency specialists were instructed to “use any opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest (except Sanders and Trump – we support them.)”

Prosecutors say some Russian employees of the troll farm were chastised in September 2016 when they had a “low number of posts dedicated to criticizing Hillary Clinton” and were told it was “imperative to intensify criticizing” the Democratic nominee in future posts.

The charges include conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, and aggravated identity theft.

One of those indicted is Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin, who has long been identified in the Russian media as the financial backer of the Internet Research Agency. He is a caterer who has been nicknamed “Putin’s chef” because of his close ties to the Russian president. Concord Consulting and Concord Catering, two Russian businesses also charged by Mueller’s team Friday, have previously been identified as Prigozhin vehicles.

The Internet Research Agency was at the center of Silicon Valley’s investigation into Russian meddling during the 2016 presidential election. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Google all found evidence that the private firm used social media to divide American voters across a range of polarizing issues, including race, religion, gun rights and immigration.

Tweets and Facebook posts that have been made public as part of these investigations make clear that the Russian disinformation effort broadly sought to favor Republican Donald Trump and undermine the support for Democrat Hillary Clinton. This conclusion has been backed by the work of several independent researchers.

Typically called a “troll farm,” the Internet Research Agency is regarded as the most prominent part of the Russian disinformation campaign, though congressional investigators pushed for evidence of other operations, including from countries other than Russia, that shared the same purpose.

Overall, Facebook acknowledged to Congress that the Internet Research Agency had bought 3,000 ads on its platform that reached 11.4 million users. The agency’s employees also reportedly made many free posts that reached 126 million users. In addition to polarizing online political conversation, Facebook reported that the Internet Research Agency used Facebook pages to organize 129 real-world events that drew the attention of nearly 340,000 Facebook users.

One of these, organized by a group called Heart of Texas, took place on May 21, 2016, under the banner of “Stop Islamization of Texas.” On that same day, another Russian-controlled Facebook group, called United Muslims of America, publicized a competing rally to “Save Islamic Knowledge” at the same place and time.
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Saturday, December 17, 2016

Why U.S. Cybersecurity Sucks

Researching my archives to craft another dainty morsel of child welfare castigation, I found this congressional hearing on cybersecurity in 2012.

Sec. Napolitano Testifies on New Cybersecurity Bill

The post had a video of the February 16, 2012 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs where Senator Diane Feinstein did not have a clue of what was going on, but it seems Google likes to block, take things down, suppress, etc. if the price is right.

The DNC presidential campaign corrupted the voting process by working with Google to manipulate the public record.

I know.  I watched my own cyber-suppression in real time.

Anyway, the S.2015 Cybersecurity Act of 2012 was trashed because a certain group of people considered it to be a form of burdensome regulation on business.

Seriously.

Here is a clip of...well... I guess I would call it a working example of a tautological fallacy, or rather political asshatery because I truly have no idea of what is coming out of this woman's mouth, but the takeaway for me was, "we are not going to do a damn thing about cybersecurity."

Four years later, not a damn thing has been done so at least she was telling the truth.

Quintessentially, cybersecurity is considered regulation and we all know who does not like it when government regulates business.


Since very few, if any have ever posited the talking points of "regulation kills jobs" into the cybersecurity discussions, I thought I would take a stab at it (pun intended) using a currently unregulated industry as an example.

Cybersecurity is more than just hacking and surveillance and demands critical rethinking of its role in the protections of civil liberties.

The main reason these social welfare programs, more intuitively, poverty programs, inclusive of child welfare, do not work is because they are unregulated, meaning, it is a free for all when it comes to shoving money in the pockets of the administrators and workers.

Now, through privatization, fake global charities, many, but not all Christian, can invest in these social welfare programs to garner the best interests in billing these Social Security Trust Fund programs, non-taxable of course, to hedge in off shore, tax aversive shell corporations through  private equities, devoid of any regulation.

To date and to my knowledge, no one has called "The Elected Ones" out on their hyperbolic smack of why regulation is bad for business, but not bad for social programs.

Cybersecurity is a business.

When there is no regulation, the people are stripped of their right to grieve, which means they are silenced and in this day and age, it becomes a form of informational asymmetry as only one side of the problem and solution is presented in the global dataverse.

The same concept applies to a voter whose only source of information about a candidate may be social media, which is unregulated, as a business, replete with troves of fake news, censored information, and false statements from the candidates.

This is nothing more than a manipulation of the public record that is ultimately Googled by staff of the Members of Congress as part of research in constructing law and policy.

That sucks.

This is a First Amendment issue because your vote is a formal conveyance of your voice, as free speech and the right to peaceably assemble in the cybersphere. (emphasis added).

What does poverty have to do with cybersecurity?

There is no avenue to question efficacy or report the fraud in these social welfare programs or social media, that Main Stream Media now heavily relies upon, all of which are private businesses.

Both are unregulated, devoid of any civil rights protections and both have lead to disastrous outcomes for the people due to a lack of regulation.

Child poverty has skyrocketed and on the other side of the coin, the vote has been compromised where no one is willing to challenge these effects in lack of regulation.

And that, boys and girls, is why cybersecurity in the U.S. sucks.

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Wednesday, September 28, 2016

The Telecommunications Act v. Net Neutrality

Just another reason why I do what I do because I am on a mission...

Democracy in Peril: Twenty Years of Media Consolidation Under the Telecommunications Act

(Photo: Television Broadcast via Shutterstock; Edited: LW / TO)

Wall Street's sinister influence on the political process has, rightly, been a major topic during this presidential campaign. But, history has taught us that the role that the media industry plays in Washington poses a comparable threat to our democracy. Yet, this is a topic rarely discussed by the dominant media, or on the campaign trail.
But now is a good time to discuss our growing media crises. Twenty years ago this week, President Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The act, signed into law on February 8, 1996, was "essentially bought and paid for by corporate media lobbies," as Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) described it, and radically "opened the floodgates on mergers."

The negative impact of the law cannot be overstated. The law, which was the first major reform of telecommunications policy since 1934, according to media scholarRobert McChesney, "is widely considered to be one of the three or four most important federal laws of this generation." The act dramatically reduced important Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations on cross ownership, and allowed giant corporations to buy up thousands of media outlets across the country,
increasing their monopoly on the flow of information in the United States and around the world.
"Never have so many been held incommunicado by so few," said Eduardo Galeano, the Latin American journalist, in response to the act.

Twenty years later the devastating impact of the legislation is undeniable: About 90 percent of the country's major media companies are owned by six corporations. Bill Clinton's legacy in empowering the consolidation of corporate media is right up there with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and welfare reform, as being among the most tragic and destructive policies of his administration.

Of all the presidential candidates running in 2016, the Big Media lobby has chosen to back Hillary Clinton.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is not merely a regrettable part of history. It serves as a stern warning about what is at stake in the future. In a media world that is going through a massive transformation, media companies have dramaticallyincreased efforts to wield influence in Washington, with a massive lobbying presence and a steady dose of campaign donations to politicians in both parties - with the goal of allowing more consolidation, and privatizing and commodifying the internet.


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Thursday, June 2, 2016

Tim Robbins, Rosario Dawson, and Greg Palast on Bernie, Trump, and Vote Theft

This is what I have been talking about for years, but always remember, children cannot vote.

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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

House Judiciary Trolls With Taxpayer Dollars

Well, well, well, look at what we have here.

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee of the Majority has been victorious in its take over for absolute control of its social media.

There is not even a hyperlink to the Judiciary front page of the Democrats as it was ensconced deep beneath the drop down menu upon scrolling up the page.

How is that even fair and equal treatment to the functioning of the federal government?

The last time I checked, utilizing congressional resources for the political gain is a no, no.

Is Chaffetz manipulating the public record under the guise of an uncited authority?

Were there any co-mingling of campaign and congressional funds?

There must be accountability in using congressional resources to create an artificial authority to manipulate the public agenda and distort the historic record.

See, the historic record, now-a-days, is called a dataverse.  It is all about the data, baby.

People look at the number of "hits" or "likes" to determine if something is valid or not.

Mutational algorithms are designed to delivery information the investors want you to see through the search engines.

Search engines tell you what you want to see; the spiders follow paths to cast the web you will be stuck in, which, in this case, videos like the one, below.

Then there are the suppression portions of online statistics which would make stuff like this the authority.

What about the intellectual property issues with using congressional resources?  YouTube has copyright and policies.

Who is the keeper of the record?

I expect hearings in Judiciary on the issues of using social media for congressional purposes with congressional resources.

Social media should be included in governance so now is just as good as anytime to examine the issues.

This is quite a crafty troll move.  Well, played, Sir, well, played.

My turn.

GOPers Tout Slick IRS Conspiracy Film In Hearing Pushing Official's Impeachment

 

The video has been posted for nearly a year on the Oversight Committee’s YouTube account, and has more than 9,000 views, which Chaffetz bragged about at Tuesday’s hearing.


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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Conyers: People Must Know Who is Flooding the Airways with Anonymous Political Ads

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For Immediate Release
Date: Friday, January 20, 2012
Contact: Matthew Morgan – 202-226-5543

Conyers: People Must Know Who is Flooding the Airways with Anonymous Political Ads
  
(WASHINGTON) –  Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) released the following statement in advance of the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, which falls on tomorrow January 21. 

The Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizens United case wiped out a century of legal precedent, granting corporations the same free speech rights as individuals and allowing for unlimited spending by corporations and special interests on political campaigns.         

“Two years ago, the Supreme Court opened the floodgate on unlimited, anonymous corporate money that distorts elections and accords giant corporations the same free speech rights as real people.  In order to address this dangerous decision, my colleagues and I introduced a narrowly crafted constitutional amendment, H.R. Res 78, to ultimately undo the damage the Citizens United decision wrought on the democratic process.  However in the meantime, Congress must immediately take up disclosure legislation similar to H.R. 5175, the DISCLOSE Act, which passed the House last Congress.  People have a right to know what entities are responsible for the anonymous ads flooding the airwaves. And until the Citizens United decision is overturned, Congress must ensure that all the facts are available to voters before they make a decision at the ballot box.”