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Tokyo Rose 2.0: White House Asks Silicon Valley For Terrorism Help

Posted by timothy on from the mouthpiece-of-a-generation dept.

theodp writes: While past U.S. Presidents have had to contend with radio propaganda, President Obama also has to worry about online propaganda. On Friday, U.S. national security officials met with leaders in Silicon Valley seeking ideas for ways to curtail terrorists' use of social media and to use technology to "disrupt paths to radicalization to violence." The closed door meetup, which included Apple CEO Tim Cook and top execs from Facebook, Twitter and Google, occurred on the same day the White House also announced the creation of the Countering Violent Extremism Task Force, which will focus on using social media to counter online propaganda by Islamic State and other terrorist groups, and the State Department promised to revamp its online counter-messaging campaign.

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  1. Opening line... by Dan+East · · Score: 3, Informative

    Obama's opening line of the meeting. "Gentlemen, how much privacy and how many rights of your users are you willing to sacrifice in the name of patriotism and the fight against terrorism?"

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    1. Re:Opening line... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      The thing I'm always concerned about is when up front they claim it's to counter Middle Eastern Terrorists like the Daesh, Taliban, whatever you want to call them, maybe Saudi's and the CIA. But then the gov uses their resources to try and counter any one who opposes the agenda of the Corporate, Government, and Banker Tyranny. People who want to live in peace, have clean water, air, healthy food that's not polluted with toxins, etc. which often puts them at odds with all kinds of large interests get treated as terrorists.

    2. Re:Opening line... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Just look at the facts and you will see. Nuclear is the safest form of power generation in terms of dead people per kWh, including all the victims of Tshernobyl.

  2. Re:Obama not a fan of 1st nor 2nd amendment ... by microTodd · · Score: 3, Informative

    Huh? It took like 5 minutes to find former students who TALKED about his lectures and in fact showed reporters notes from lectures he gave.

    Here's one example:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07...

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