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- megaloid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+92They're not doing it to track terrorists, they're doing it to track you.
- demonicume, on 10/12/2007, -4/+73wow i spent 18 months doging bullets in the sandbox to come back to this? we're fighting a war on terror and the government i supported with my own blod is chasing teenagers thru cyberspace?
- CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -7/+50noone else sees this country turning into a smothering dictatorship?
- shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -9/+40Help them out and put in this code into a myspace site to make it all go away.
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{display: none} - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31 "They that would give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin - darkdaedra, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31I seriously think there are better ways to track terrorists than this. The NSA is going to have far more knowledge than it could possibly want about the social lives of underage girls.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26I never really understood the whole tinfoil hat thing... growing up we used to put tinfoil on the antenna to get BETTER reception...
- llbbl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24New feature of myspace ... Check here if international terrorist .. Brilliant I tell you!
- NJank, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22had to correct your typo for you:
The NSA is going to have far more knowledge than it could possibly want about the social lives of BALDING, MIDDLE-AGED MEN PRETENDING TO BE underage girls. - crazyc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20The problem is that the government is keeping track of all this data, and storing it. If you keep track of all the data produced by a certain person, you will undoubtedly be able to present information about him which he does not want to come into the general public.
I'm not religious at all, but I think my homeboy Jesus put it well when he said: "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
We all have something to hide, and why should we give the governement the tools to know and store our secrets? - curlewfish, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Hiding visual elements doesn't keep the information from the software that harvests it. The information is still there in the HTML file.
- hometoast, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22::: If everyone gets off their asses and votes for someone good this time :::
Yes, because there's lots of good choices.
"Good morning, sir. Would you like the green-bean latte or the bananna-nut horsradish muffin?" - Cabal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19wow i'm glad that our government doesn't have anything better to do with their ***** time and money then spying on their own citizens
- jrsims, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18I hear you loud and clear CiXel.
America feels less and less like home with each passing week. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18the problem is that it goes deeper than just Bush, He is a pawn. Its time for action to be taken. Its time for the removal and reimplementation of Democaracy.
Its time for Revolution - bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19Only 955 days, 17 hours, and 15 minutes until someone new is in office. If everyone gets off their asses and votes for someone good this time (on the off chance someone who respects the bill of rights gets elected) we may dodge the bullet of a full dictatorship, someone that will put us back in line. As is, we've had many years with Bush, and its ruining us because of it.
- imjustabill, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Emo Kids: The new Terrorists
- zatrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12its funny because they want us to believe they are only starting to do this NOW, yeah right
- SpazticChips, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17..dude, it's not a war on terror, it's just the U.S bullying around the middle east. They pay people to bring "terrorists" to them, but the end result is that people are bringing innocent people into U.S. custody so they can get money. That's moslyt what Gitmo is filled with.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15@imbatman05: Not all soldiers support Bush. And out of them, they don't all prefer court martial either.
I bet they are targeting the conspiracy and truth seeker folks on Myspace. There's quite a few. Better get Alex Jones off your list, and remove that Loose Change video quick, or you'll be labeled a terrorist... - invisiblesun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11antoniojvr: why don't you go back to Oceania and leave us alone?
- blankoboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Don't you mean "their ***** time and YOUR money" my taxing paying friend =) Your tax dollars at work!
- merkle, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13The only terrorists here are working at the Pentagon.
- gridrunner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I hate myspace - terrible HTML, usability and design. But that's beside the point.
Regardless of whether this is true, at the end of the day if you're going to post information about yourself on any publicly accessible webpage then you should probably expect it to be harvested by someone somewhere. - lasermike026, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Ug, these NSA people are so stupid. We need to cut their budget.
- avatarpalin, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13Terror being Latin for 'people who posses Oil'
- BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6:-P its funny how every computer geek hates myspace. Nothing against that, I hate myspace to.
- londoneconomist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6That won't stop the data collection and analysis.
Why do you think News Corp purchased MySpace? They analyze trends and data collected from the site, and then they use it to develop marketing strategy. What could be more valuable than teens ranting about their true opinions about various pop culture issues in order to impress their friends? This information is gold, and results in a marketing feedback loop that destroys real, and innovative culture.
Here are some examples: I loved it when people commented how awesome it was that the Tom guy changed the main page to an X-Men background. It's a 20th Century Fox (News Corp) movie. On Cranky Geeks episode 11 (segment 2) Ryder Darcy has a laughable comment about going to see an "independent" movie titled Nightwatch that he heard about through "underground" channels on MySpace, unfortunately Nightwatch is a Fox Searchlight picture.
Here's an interesting (disturbing) and free (you can watch it online, IPTV!) PBS Frontline documentary that examines how the huge media companies market to teenagers:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/view/
Here's Robert McChesney's analysis of the subject:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/interviews/mcchesney.html
Cranky Geeks Link (Segment 2):
http://crankygeeks.com/blogs/crankygeeks/archive/2006/05/23/451.aspx
Nightwatch Movie:
http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/nwnd/ - aresef, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Your tax dollars at work, people.
- yensed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Am I the only 16 year-old male that thinks myspace sucks? Its just stupid! Unless your into 12 year old sluts and 42 year old 15 year olds.
- bot001220, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Old news. Yet another incarnation of the government's "Total Information Awareness" program.
- analgesia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Isn't everyone on myspace lying about their age, interests and putting images of celebs as avitars. Would be nice tho getting retired 2 year early because as a teen you lied about your age.
- drakethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Its funny because claiming all this was to watch terrorists was just the start of the cascade effect. Its pathetic that America fell for something as stupid as the patriot or believed that we should loosen up our rights to help get terrorists. Did anyone even think to define terrorist before all this started happening? Hopefully our next president is competent and will start cleaning up the mess, but since presidents are paid puppets of corporate America, that may be hoping for too much.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4In this case, no. It's public information. It was put out there to be read. This isn't a privacy issue at all.
- Doghound, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4With all due respect (and I know this is going to get modded down), people who use myspace are freely giving their information to the public.
Some of your posts sound like this is a breech of privacy when it is not at all. When you publicly disclose information on a free, public website, it is anyones right to look at and save your information in any way.
Besides, from what I've seen on myspace, most of the information given would be info they'd already have: age, location, relationships (to some extent).
Find me on myspace here: www.myspa.... wait, I hate myspace and don't even have an account. - willcode4beer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This just in, "advertisers are scanning MySpace to build marketing profiles".
- deepsub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'll bet Rupert Murdoch had nothing to do with this...
Fascist nation here we come. :-| - Nicklogan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow the government really has nothing better to do, do they? What a waste of money.
- crazyc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@otherland
"If you don't feel that freedom is worth defending leave the country and go to some lib paradise like Cuba."
How the hell does registrering the online habits of your population equal freedom? Freedom is being able to think freely, speak freely and act freely - without fear of punishment! - Th3DudeAbides, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3chill out bro, the NSA is part of the DoD, and Pentagon is DoD headquarters
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency - willcode4beer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3::: If everyone gets off their asses and votes for someone good this time :::
I thought the anti-gay marriage ammendment and the immigration bills were being trumpted to get the people off their cans to vote. That anti gay marriage talk worked great last time.
Anyone notice Bush is only anti-gay during election years? Anybody notice that it works (2x gov, pres primary, 2x pres) really, really well? - 5blocksfree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@njank -> "The NSA is going to have far more knowledge than it could possibly want about the social lives of BALDING, MIDDLE-AGED MEN PRETENDING TO BE underage girls."
Clearly the NSA knows its priorities. - leqin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3STOP PRESS
In shock news the NSA announced that it is commencing a project to datamine all user posts on DIGG in order to discover people's political opinions and subversive ideals. - 7IM80, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5We are all slaves
- fogbog293, on 02/10/2009, -0/+3@curlewfish
I think s?he was making a joke that myspace content should go away. - shinsetsuguy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5flagged as inacurate.. The NSA is not part of the Pentagon... i don't trust the source of this article if someone didn't know that... silly... Please flag!!! Such misinformation shouldn't be on the front page!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- nkassi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@PeeOnYou: This isn't just a U.S. Problem. The world depends on Oil in the end everyone will duke it out to get those couple barrels here and there. Now, yes we depend on Oil for most of our activities but we do also use Nuclear, Coal, Natural Gas, Water power to do our stuff. Can we survive without Oil sure if the Oil companies stop buying every single design that can compete with the Oil market.
- miller9time, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3+digg for calling Jesus your homeboy...I haven't heard that in a while, it cracks me up every time.
- bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I wonder how the EFF will respond.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"If everyone gets off their asses and votes for someone good this time..." -- bennyboy371
HAHAHAHAHA!!! We haven't had a "good" choice in candidates, on either side of the aisle, in 20 years.
Voting, in the US, isn't about who you're voting for...it's about who you're voting against. Which is pretty f'n sad if you think about it. -
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