Feds creating hate speech database?

[Black]

billb wrote:
[quote=Black]
[quote=$tevie]
Whoever didn't have the nerve to address Swampy publicly should be embarrassed to be such a coward.

Assuming it really happened.
Swampy's not the only one.
I can concur the most vociferous whiner is also the most shamefully craven coward.
Allright, so you get an unwanted hostile PM. Next step is to inform the person the contact is unwanted. Did they stop?

[silvarios]

It was me. I generally try to send at least one hostile PM per week.

[Lux Interior]

"Sir! Bogies at 2 o'clock! Hostiles incoming!"

[beagledave]

swampy wrote:
[quote=beagledave]
[quote=swampy]
[quote=Lemon Drop]
http://truthy.indiana.edu/about

Interesting project. Politically neutral, will reveal false rumors started by both parties. Why are conservatives so afraid of this?

Who said conservatives would be afraid of this?
Well you started this thread, what are YOUR opinions? (And by the way, I don't see the phrase "hate speech" mentioned at the Truthy website, so not sure where you got that descriptor?
I've been told (in a private message) that my opinions are not appreciated here.

The term "hate speech" came directly from the cited OP link.
Well the cited OP link that you used is NOT the actual Truthy link, but someone's political spin on it. Read the Truthy link and tell us what YOU (not some editorial cite) think of the idea.

[swampy]

I read the Truthy link and found their objectives pretty much as stated in the OP quote. do you think I coined the term "social pollution"? I'm asking just what social pollution means? Who is defining it? S

[rjmacs]

swampy wrote:
I read the Truthy link and found their objectives pretty much as stated in the OP quote. do you think I coined the term "social pollution"? I'm asking just what social pollution means? Who is defining it? S

So, you think there should be no accountability when bots and other bogus propagators of political deception (whether from the left or the right) blast fake info all over the socially networked world?

Don't you want to know when Harry Reid's staff is behind a BS social media campaign to discredit a Tea Party GOP candidate in a contentious primary?

[SteveG]

Swamp's just playing to the anti-research crowd.

[swampy]

rjmacs wrote:
[quote=swampy]
I read the Truthy link and found their objectives pretty much as stated in the OP quote. do you think I coined the term "social pollution"? I'm asking just what social pollution means? Who is defining it? S

So, you think there should be no accountability when bots and other bogus propagators of political deception (whether from the left or the right) blast fake info all over the socially networked world?

Don't you want to know when Harry Reid's staff is behind a BS social media campaign to discredit a Tea Party GOP candidate in a contentious primary?
I'm all in favor of exposing political deception.

But you haven't (or can't) answer my question.

[rjmacs]

swampy wrote:
[quote=swampy]
I read the Truthy link and found their objectives pretty much as stated in the OP quote. do you think I coined the term "social pollution"? I'm asking just what social pollution means? Who is defining it? S

But you haven't (or can't) answer my question.
Non-partisan social scientists are defining it. Would you put that responsibility in the hands of pundits?

[RgrF]

Black wrote:
[quote=billb]
[quote=Black]
[quote=$tevie]
Whoever didn't have the nerve to address Swampy publicly should be embarrassed to be such a coward.

Assuming it really happened.
Swampy's not the only one.
I can concur the most vociferous whiner is also the most shamefully craven coward.
Allright, so you get an unwanted hostile PM. Next step is to inform the person the contact is unwanted. Did they stop?
No!

The next step is to simply publish the unwanted post. Hostile PMs have no expectation of privacy.