Google: The Democrats’ Private Intelligence Agency
By: Ben Howe | February 12th, 2013 at 12:02 PM | 21
Last week, Neil Stevens raised the alarm about Google selling out conservatives on policy issues. He’s right, but a number of conservatives and Republicans think there is an even bigger problem for GOP.
Remember that enormous, sophisticated data operation the Obama campaign had? The one that gave them massive daily data on public opinion trends in almost every segment of potential voters.
It’s almost as if Democrats had access to some sort of huge database of real time information about what the public was reading or writing online. The kind of breathtakingly large, real-time data that could be used for real-time trend analysis, predictive modeling and even behavioral manipulation.
On a completely unrelated note, former RNC eCampaign Director Michael Turk wrote Monday that “the frightening advantage the left has is in a less touted entity known as the Analyst Institute (AI) and a consortium of behavioral scientists” who are “concerned not only with your characteristics and voting behavior, but how they can manipulate that behavior.”
Now, combine Obama’s political campaign with Google’s near-comprehensive real-time data and the left’s behavioral analysis. What do you get? Beat.
This goes beyond just campaigns. Google likes to brag that they can detect flu outbreaks two weeks before the CDC based on search volume. Eric Schmidt once bragged that the company could predict stock market movements.
Imagine how much more could be learned if Google’s computer algorithms combined not only search data but also all of the data they get by reading everything written in or sent to Gmail and whatever you store on Google docs and Google Drive. Then imagine what Democratic voter data groups like Catalist (which launched as a for-profit operation, allowing it much more latitude in working with outside groups….or companies) could do with that data.
With a few tweaks to their algorithms Google could easily have near perfect insights into the voting behaviors and patterns of the U.S. population at large down to specific precincts, neighborhoods or even households.
The threat isn’t just that Google openly supports left wing politicians and policies. That’s obvious, and that relationship goes both ways. Google+ hosted Joe Biden for a “fireside chat” about gun control and Obama is doing a Google+ “hangout” immediately following his State of the Union speech tonight.
The real threat is that Google, or perhaps just a few people within the leadership of Google, may be quietly operating as a private intelligence agency for the left.
And every time you use Google or Gmail you could be contributing just a little bit more of your behavioral data to the left.
Last night I read parts of the OP of this thread..
The mention of a certain lettered troll had me step back to not instantly react.
I think the OP still holds fro this thread.
It's nearly 100K posts without anything near an understanding of why repukes are a better party than the demipukes/indipukes or other-pukes.
I have learned recently of a new National Atheist party which may be an alternative to the two party failure that exists now, at least for me. http://www.usanap.org
Reading some of the more recent posts leads me to believe that those claiming repukelicant are basically dummy/trolls who blurt shut out there fingers and stand back to watch the fireworks and reaction to the shite online.
Resist the urge to respond to shite with emotion, we'll all get along much better.
Also, take ego out of the discussion: I am "X" therefore you must respect me, where "X" is any job title, any degree of learning, or time spent at activity, normally referred to as a variable in math.
Without ego there is the possibly of a somewhat more civil discourse.
I have asked it before.. Never got a real response. I ask again.
Why should I vote republican?
What are the good things that any republican has legislated into existence that makes America the great nation that it is?
I personally do not feel that America is all that when I hear from other societies around the world where things seem so much better, or at least not as f*#ked up as it is here in the US.
In a sense I'm asking: What do you believe and why? in order to get to the truth as you know it and to determine if this is valid or not to the reality we all seem to share?
Because their vision, policies, and conduct are all Wrong for this nation
They basically suck
No one has provided a good reason to vote Republican, the only reasons they have offered were that they hated the Dems because of some BS talking point, in other words, they are completely propagandised to vote Republican
"The real threat is that Google, or perhaps just a few people within the leadership of Google, may be quietly operating as a private intelligence agency for the left."
"And every time you use Google or Gmail you could be contributing just a little bit more of your behavioral data to the left."
Correct.
We're getting rid of the repub party, and taking over gov't nationally, just like we've already done in CA.
No that video is not above Ron's head. Ron is a good guy who cares deeply about people and America. I don't agree with everything he says but I do agree with some of his key concerns like the NDAA and Patriot act.
**Federal deficits and debt have been sharply higher under President Obama, but the evidence continues to show that the Great Recession, President Bush’s tax cuts, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq explain most of the deficits that have occurred on Obama’s watch — based on the latest Congressional Budget Office projections as well as legislation enacted since we last issued this analysis of what lies behind current deficits and debt.
Though some lawmakers and pundits continue to blame record deficits on the President’s policies in general — and his actions to boost the economy and stabilize the financial system in particular — these policies increase budget deficits only briefly; they will have no significant impact on the long-term problem of large deficits and rising debt.**
"The goal of reining in long-term deficits and debt would be much easier to achieve if it were not for the policies set in motion during the Bush years. That era’s tax cuts — most of which policymakers extended in this year’s American Taxpayer Relief Act, with President Obama’s support — and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will account for almost half of the debt that we will owe, under current policies, by 2019.[1] By contrast, the economic recovery measures and financial rescues will account for just over 10 percent of the debt at that time."
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