By specifying "Right Wing", you are specifying a political context. Which is fine by me because I'm not interested in discussing the psychology of conformance, obedience, and group dynamics today. Nor am I at all interested in opinions of Trump.
In America, the Right and Left argue constantly over where authority over specific matters lies within the framework of the Constitution. Under Authoritarianism, there is no argument.
Developments have accelerated so quickly over the last 30 years, we may have simply worn ourselves out when it comes to being impressed by it all, or just so used to it that it doesn't register as being impressive.
In other words, we're burned out. You can only have your mind blown for so long.
I'm well aware of the nature and meaning of the term. Which is how I recognize the inapplicability to the American political right, which holds dear an ideology of limited government. Authoritarianism maximizes the authority (hence the name) of government, American Conservatism demands strict limits on government authority and Republicans generally believe the Federal government has already exceeded it's constitutional limits. It is, by definition, impossible for the American Right to be Authoritarian.
While Stalinism is Authoritarian and Totalitarian, ideologically it is anti-nationalist as opposed to hyper-nationalist (a key element of the Fascist variants of Right wing authoritarian-totalitarianism) and economically communist as opposed to the pseudo-capitalism of it's Right wing cousin.
Facebook sells data to people who want to target their marketing campaigns. Pretty sure Cambridge used the data exactly as Facebook intended our data to be used.
"They", as in Cambridge Analytica, did not create the app or use it to gather any data. Kogan did that, with Facebook's approval and using the tools provided by Facebook. Cambridge got the data from Kogan.
I believe the only real issue is that Kogan may have violated terms by selling data that was for non-commercial use.
Seems to me that Facebook approved a researcher's harvesting of massive amounts of data through their API (the core of their business model), and said data was then resold.
That's how Facebook works, but now that it helped elect someone they didn't like it's a problem?
To my knowledge, it is not illegal for a campaign to hire foreign-based consultants.
Wait, "right wing authoritarianism is on the rise", so government authority has to be expanded over social media? Which you don't expect Republicans to do??
Do I need to point out how absurdly self-contradictory that is? Because I will.
You said that the Right is both authoritarian, which you imply is bad, and not authoritarian enough, which you're also saying is bad. A double contradiction!
Is it really that different? They're just skipping the step of sending out questionnaires or making thousands of calls.
So, what's the problem? Finding out what issues are important to people and focusing on them in a campaign is kinda fundamental to the whole process, no? It was okay in the '90's when Bill used "triangulation" (the same thing without Facebook) to target messaging.
I don't think truncating the quote makes the statement any less absurd. It doesn't matter how many people you lump in to the accusation, nobody at a software company is grafting sex organs onto beings that lacked them. That's a job for a plastic surgeon.
Sexualizing people that is. Unless Microsoft is hiring neuters and surgically altering them to have sex organs the article doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
it doesn't matter, the parents are responsible for checking those ESRB ratings and making sure they aren't providing their kids with age-inappropriate content.
Lets face it, the problem here isn't guns, tv, games, music or movies. It's our failure to raise healthy children.
My theory is that if you put money into building more schools and hiring more teachers the smaller school and class sizes will put a pin in the balloon of factors that lead to these shootings.
Yup, and the Court has approved the practice. It's simply a reward paid to an citizen for providing evidence of a crime. A Best Buy employee isn't an agent of the FBI just because they get a reward, they would have to be directed to search a specific person's computer for evidence to be considered an agent of the government.
Being able to project a message to the car in front of me is a long standing dream of mine. Something like, "It's 55mph here idiot", or "Put down your phone fuckwad". Also the bit about turn signals you mentioned.
It's not a sign of bad faith, it's a necessity. The FBI gets a call that there is kiddie porn on someone's computer, they get a warrant to search it. They find it and pay the informant a reward.
It's not a new program or even a new idea. It's been done since before computers were invented and is entirely constitutional.
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And the difference in wattage between microwave ovens and wifi is pretty significant. 1 watt (FCC max) vs. 1100 watts.
In America, the Right and Left argue constantly over where authority over specific matters lies within the framework of the Constitution. Under Authoritarianism, there is no argument.
In other words, we're burned out. You can only have your mind blown for so long.
Yes, but not in relation to this incident. They may be bad actors, but they don't seem to have done anything illegal under US law in this case.
While Stalinism is Authoritarian and Totalitarian, ideologically it is anti-nationalist as opposed to hyper-nationalist (a key element of the Fascist variants of Right wing authoritarian-totalitarianism) and economically communist as opposed to the pseudo-capitalism of it's Right wing cousin.
(I'm almost entirely kidding)
I bet that's what Musk calls it in private.
Facebook sells data to people who want to target their marketing campaigns. Pretty sure Cambridge used the data exactly as Facebook intended our data to be used.
Did you really think conservatives, whether or not they used Facebook, were going to vote for Hillary?
I believe the only real issue is that Kogan may have violated terms by selling data that was for non-commercial use.
That's how Facebook works, but now that it helped elect someone they didn't like it's a problem?
To my knowledge, it is not illegal for a campaign to hire foreign-based consultants.
Do I need to point out how absurdly self-contradictory that is? Because I will.
You said that the Right is both authoritarian, which you imply is bad, and not authoritarian enough, which you're also saying is bad. A double contradiction!
That aside, do you know what Authoritarianism is?
So, what's the problem? Finding out what issues are important to people and focusing on them in a campaign is kinda fundamental to the whole process, no? It was okay in the '90's when Bill used "triangulation" (the same thing without Facebook) to target messaging.
I don't think truncating the quote makes the statement any less absurd. It doesn't matter how many people you lump in to the accusation, nobody at a software company is grafting sex organs onto beings that lacked them. That's a job for a plastic surgeon.
Sexualizing people that is. Unless Microsoft is hiring neuters and surgically altering them to have sex organs the article doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Isn't that what the Romans said about Christianity?
And how it created so much strife by facilitating communication.
Lets face it, the problem here isn't guns, tv, games, music or movies. It's our failure to raise healthy children.
My theory is that if you put money into building more schools and hiring more teachers the smaller school and class sizes will put a pin in the balloon of factors that lead to these shootings.
Yup, and the Court has approved the practice. It's simply a reward paid to an citizen for providing evidence of a crime. A Best Buy employee isn't an agent of the FBI just because they get a reward, they would have to be directed to search a specific person's computer for evidence to be considered an agent of the government.
Because it won't be long before you're accidentally installing it along with McAfee Security Scan and TrueKey when you just want Adobe Reader.
As for "dick pics", that is a favor to everyone around. They can't see my genitalia while I'm sitting in my car and that just isn't fair to them.
Being able to project a message to the car in front of me is a long standing dream of mine. Something like, "It's 55mph here idiot", or "Put down your phone fuckwad". Also the bit about turn signals you mentioned.
Or I'm driving a compact and coming the other way is a lifted pickup or bigass SUV.
It's not a new program or even a new idea. It's been done since before computers were invented and is entirely constitutional.