Feds Creating Database to Track ‘Hate Speech’ on Twitter

[Ptarmigan]

Feds Creating Database to Track ‘Hate Speech’ on Twitter
http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-creating-database-to-track-hate-speech-on-twitter/

The federal government is spending nearly $1 million to create an online database that will track “misinformation” and hate speech on Twitter.

The National Science Foundation is financing the creation of a web service that will monitor “suspicious memes” and what it considers “false and misleading ideas,” with a major focus on political activity online.

The “Truthy” database, created by researchers at Indiana University, is designed to “detect political smears, astroturfing, misinformation, and other social pollution.”

Anything with this:

“This service could mitigate the diffusion of false and misleading ideas, detect hate speech and subversive propaganda, and assist in the preservation of open debate,” the grant said.

The person behind this, Filippo Menczer, is a progressive, euphemism for radical leftists/Fascist/Communists.

“Truthy” claims to be non-partisan. However, the project’s lead investigator Filippo Menczer proclaims his support for numerous progressive advocacy groups, including President Barack Obama’s Organizing for Action, Moveon.org, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, Amnesty International, and True Majority.

This should raise red flags.

[Dori]

This is dangerous.  Who is going to decide what is hate speech or propaganda?

This isn't going to apply to just twitter. 

[Chris_]

This is dangerous.  Who is going to decide what is hate speech or propaganda?

Lois Lerner.

[JohnnyReb]

Lois Lerner.

There's the answer to all her problems, "All my emails contained hate speech so therefore they were eliminated."

[thundley4]

IIRC, didn't Obama have something where his campaign wanted people to rat out people for doing the same thing?

I have a feeling, they are already doing this and this is just one of those leaks to get ahead of the game for when the news breaks.

[Dori]

IIRC, didn't Obama have something where his campaign wanted people to rat out people for doing the same thing?

I have a feeling, they are already doing this and this is just one of those leaks to get ahead of the game for when the news breaks.

Obama's organization "Organizing for America" had a tattletale place called "Attack Watch" where you could report negative information about Obama.

But I think there was one established by one of our government agencies early on in his Administration.

This is the kind of crap that communists do.

[J P Sousa]

  Organizing for Action, Moveon.org, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, Amnesty International, and True Majority. 

So, anyone who supports lower taxes, less government, and believe in the constitution are guilty of hate speech. 
.

[DefiantSix]

...But I think there was one established by one of our government agencies early on in his Administration.

This is the kind of crap that communists do.

There was.  flag@whitehouse.gov was the email address you were supposed to send all the "right wing lies and propaganda" you were getting in your e-mail, so Comrade Eric "My People" Holder & crew could track down the originators of it and persecute "prosecute" them.

It was a great place to forward all of my e-mails for penis enlargement, instant "no credit check" credit, and correspondence with the former Nigerian Minister of Finance, back in the day...

[J P Sousa]

There was.  flag@whitehouse.gov was the email address you were supposed to send all the "right wing lies and propaganda" you were getting in your e-mail, so Comrade Eric "My People" Holder & crew could track down the originators of it and persecute "prosecute" them.

It was a great place to forward all of my e-mails for penis enlargement, instant "no credit check" credit, and correspondence with the former Nigerian Minister of Finance, back in the day...

Thanks,
And all this time I have been forwarding to spam@uce.gov
.

[Chris_]

snitch@obama.gov