
Hooliganism moves online at The Cave in Chicago, sucking up your private information and harassing your friends
There’s nothing surprising (at least to Clintonistas) that the Obama campaign has been using peer pressure and psychological manipulation to herd Democrats. But in light of Snowden’s revelations about the extent to the NSA’s reach into our private lives, the Obama campaign’s tactics are deeply disturbing. If you got an email from a suspicious sender asking you to surrender your address book and a lot of private information so he can harass your friends, you’d quickly change all your passwords and turn on two-step verification. But when it’s some 20 something Obama fan boy in a cave in Chicago doing it, we’re supposed to trust them?
I don’t think so.
Anyway, listen to the Terry Gross interview with Jonathan Alter and think to yourself how different this sounds now than it would have a month ago. Who believes that the information gathering, retention and mining stopped after the election? I have bridge in Brooklyn…
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