CISPA Sponsor Tweets, Then Deletes, About How Much More Lobbying Dollars Have Come From Pro-CISPA Groups
from the read-before-you-retweet dept
Ah, transparency. The Sunlight Foundation put together Politwoops last year to highlight tweets that elected officials deleted. Mostly it's innocuous stuff, but sometimes some real gems come through. For example, the account of Rep. Mike Rogers, who is the main Representative behind CISPA, retweeted but then deleted a MapLight tweet about how the House Intelligence Committee, which Rogers chairs, "received 15 times more from pro-CISPA groups than anti-CISPA orgs." You can see MapLight's data here.Update: Oh, and it gets better. Rogers has been using the hashtag #CISPAalert in a bunch of his tweets in support of CISPA. But that hashtag was set up by the EFF, and every tweet that uses that hashtag helps fund the EFF in its fight against CISPA.
Rogers (R-Mich.)'s official Twitter account has, since Wednesday, been using the hashtag #CISPAalert to address criticism of his Cyber Intelligence Security Protection Act (CISPA). Activists are wrong, he says. CISPA wouldn't allow government "monitoring anyone’s email or personal information."I'm sure once CISPA is in place, Rogers will figure out this Twitter stuff.
But the congressman—or whoever runs his Twitter account—doesn't seem to have gotten the memo. A domain name registrar called Namecheap is running a promotion: offering a dollar to Internet activists at the Electronic Frontier Foundation for each tweet with that hashtag. The EFF is actively campaigning against CISPA, calling it a “privacy-invading cybersecurity spying bill.”
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Because I have to wonder what kind of people are giving this bill money.
The government doesn't need to fund its own laws. They just break them regardless.
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That's funny coming from you.
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Government no longer represents the people
Congress is nothing more than an illusion show.
Thanks for this "little gem".
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Okay, now reveal how much Google paid to defeat SOPA.
And by the way, inquiring minds STILL wonder who funded your DC trip to stop SOPA.
Take a loopy tour of Techdirt.com! You always end up same place!
http://techdirt.com/
Where fanboys assert that multi-billion industries are doing it all wrong!
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That being said from someone who does the same in passing cheap shots for his notions in his comments on here now that is priceless.
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Update: Rogers accidentally helping EFF raise funds to oppose CISPA
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Re: Okay, now reveal how much Google paid to defeat SOPA.
Take a loopy tour of Techdirt.com! You always end up same place!
http://techdirt.com/
Where Mike sez: uploader + file host + links site + downloader = perfectly "legal" symbiotic piracy.
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See also: Prenda, Righthaven, Carreon, Gohmert...
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https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/require-congressmen-senators-wear-logos-their -financial-backers-their-clothing-much-nascar-drivers/vZBQJ18R
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I always get a chuckle when he asserts that "them there college boys" are too dimwitted to know what's really going on and then follows it up with something so mind-boggling stupid that it hurts even trying to read it.
I also find it funny when he attempts to paint the community members here as "pimple-faced teenagers in the basement downloading stuff all day on Mom's computer" when the actual demographics of Techdirt tell a very different story.
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Re: Okay, now reveal how much Google paid to defeat SOPA.
Asked and answered awhile ago:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120405/13292918393/chris-dodd-suggests-backroom-negotiat ions-new-sopa-are-well-underway.shtml#c429
Maybe if you spent more time reading what is actually discussed here and less time creating lame-ass timestamps for your comments, you would have known this.
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My posts with tag line now include an automatically added GMT time stamp. So that's the first thing you need to get right: it's a trivial check for my convenience. The rest is by an algorithm that you're not too likely to deduce. In any event, your putting effort into it goes beyond any reasonable free speech into deliberate fraud.
Oh, and by the way, the real out_of_the_blue will never say quit copying me.
And I again call on Mike to expose this fraud.
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US Government so corrupted
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LOL
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Thanks for the link. -- Now I know that Mike's level of interest is beyond academic.
I don't bother to go through and read, you're right. It's painful to see the level of response. -- Discussed? No, it's just excuse for fanboy-troll ad hom. Say what you want and let me say mine, all I ask.
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I do not look forward to a Mad Max World but I do dislike this Government and I say honestly they have had it coming for Decades now.So I look forward to their fall from Grace.
We will not be forgetting who they are.They will not want to be around when that one happens.
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If you've seen that awful movie 'The Firm', THAT is DLA Piper. So where are they in the news? Nowhere.
Sunlight, the source listed for this article, lists their activity.
http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/lobbying/search?q=dla+piper
But it doesn't even come close to matching the activity on THIS.
http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmbills.php?id=D000021569&year=2012
So, are reporters just THAT lazy or is there conspiracy?
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Funny, that post didn't have a time stamp... so which out_of_the_blue is the real one???
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Get involved with keeping the internet free and open. Check out http://techdirt.com/
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Simply to satiate my own morbid curiosity:
Why? What is the point to your silly timestamps? Anyone can duplicate something similar anytime they wish to. You are using an unregistered moniker and no ever gave you any assurances that someone else couldn't use it too. What exactly are you trying to prove?
In any event, your putting effort into it goes beyond any reasonable free speech into deliberate fraud.
Once again, you are being silly here. It's not even close to fraud when someone uses the same unregistered moniker as you. It's completely your choice not to register an account and with that comes reality that someone else can use the same name too. To put it bluntly: Register an account or suck it up, Buttercup.
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Lol!
Thats fucking hilarious.
Good luck with that one, princess
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"My posts with tag line now include an automatically added GMT time stamp...it's a trivial check for my convenience."
Why the hell is he tagging his posts in a way that only he can identify, for his own convenience? Can he really not remember what he just fucking typed?
"What's this? 10 minutes ago I said 'I love Mike Masnick and want to bear his children'? That doesn't sound familiar, but the time-stamp matches the algorithm code...it must be true! I am surprised to learn this about myself!"
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I think that OOTB is a failed Police office that got his badge pulled for being an overbearing COP.
Most likely he beat a suspect that was already handcuffed, and it was vidoed, so he lost his ability to intimidate under the color of law..... it just fits his personality
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Another brilliant plan blue.
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You are a genius I say.
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So all that means is that he saw it, misunderstood what MapLight was saying, and then deleted it.
I suspect he filled in the sentence with "received 15 times more [supporting messages] from pro-CISPA groups."
I suspect he thought he was re-tweeting a report implying strong public support for CISPA, not lobbying dollars.
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Oh, and by the way, the real out_of_the_blue will never say quit copying me.
And I again call on Mike to expose this fraud.
So you'll not tell people to stop copying you, you'll just try to pester Mike into stopping them.
As for the timestamps, why bother when we can't verify that the code is accurate? Someone could post claiming that you've got the wrong code on one of your comments(and are therefore not the original), and all we'd have is your word that they weren't right.
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How much have your masters paid you? I didn't even read the post, I'm just asking!
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Snarky, ain't you?
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Now on the Internet, people are far less slow and forgiving when it comes to catching booboos like these. Small wonder that these organisations want technology hampered; it's the classic contigency of ass-covering.
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x means times or multiplication. So however much they got in opposition to CISPA, they got 15 times that much in support of it.
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You don't often see trolls actually admit they don't read the articles.
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So corrupt and has poor reading comprehension too. That could be a dangerous combination.
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