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Senators Tell Facebook To Quit Sharing Users' Info
Hugh Pickens notes a USA Today story reporting that two US senators have joined Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in telling Facebook to quit sharing more of its users' data than they signed up for. Politico.com ups USA Today's ante, saying that it was
three more senators, not two more, who
joined Schumer's call: Michael Bennet (D-CO), Mark Begich (D-AK), and Al Franken (D-MN). The senators are asking the FTC to look at Facebook's controversial new information-sharing policies, arguing that the massively popular social network overstepped its bounds when it began sharing user data with other websites. Sen. Schumer said he learned about the new rules from his daughter, who is in law school, but added that he's noticed no difference on his own Facebook page, which, he assured reporters, "is very boring." "I can attest to that," deadpanned Franken, who made his living as a comedian before entering the Senate, and whose Facebook followers outnumber Schumer's by ten to one.
Can I tell senators to stop sharing more of my money than the constitution they signed up for allows?
The whole "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot" thing was tarring him with the same brush Rush uses every day.
Additionally, there's scads of refutations in Truth, Lying Liars, and Big Fat Idiot for multiple talking points, and outlines his own POV in an often humorous way.
Again, with lots of footnotes and cites pointing to where he derived his facts from.
But yeah, you go ahead pretending he calls people names for three books and can't have any political discourse.
Just a hint, re: discourse: I suspect the problem is you.
You better watch out, there may be dogs about . .
If immigration services had done their jobs in the summer of 2001 there woulnd't have been a 9/11 attack. Most of the 9/11 Hijackers were here on EXPIRED student visas. If the FBI had done their job they could have prevented it as well.
So what do we do?
We create several more layers of obsfication for the problem. We pass a patriot act that screw over the average american on civil rights, we create another bloated beuracracy in the form of Homeland Security.
What should have happened is that after the congressional investigation into 9/11 there should have been several rounds of mass firings in several key government agencies followed by promotions of those who sounded the alarms but were met with deaf ears of their (now fired) co-workers.
No one had the GUTS to even suggest that they should fire anyone after the 9/11 hearings. More of the government mentality of promoting those who fail instead of firing their asses.
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
Apparently the off topic mod doesnt have a facebook account
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