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If Terrorists Could Please Tag Their Blog Posts 'Death To America', The US Government Would Appreciate It
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A lot of companies like to keep tabs on what people are saying about them, and with the advent of blogs, that's been taken to a new level. It seems that the federal government wants to get on the bandwagon, as the DHS is looking to develop software that monitors publications around the globe and gauges sentiment towards the US. Officials say this could help the government identify potential threats to the country. First of all, we'd assume the government is already monitoring publications pretty closely. Second, the idea that negative sentiment towards the country is somehow a useful predictor of terrorist attacks is a bit absurd. In a sense, sure, it seems likely that regions where terrorists reside will probably correlate with places where there's negative sentiment in the press. But what does that tell you? Such a system would probably be as effective as the complex social network analysis that concluded that many of those involved in the 9/11 attacks were associated with ringleader Mohammad Atta. Just because it's true, doesn't mean it's useful.
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More surprisingly, 60% of American blogs say "Death to Bush" too.
Maybe we have more in common with Islamic jihadists than we think?
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OH Lord
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No when we post on here as anonymous coward we will be flagged and tagged as terrorists...
Shit I am posting as anon coward!!! I am on the list now also!!! Are you happy??? Now apologize before the American Gestapo bust down our doors!!!!
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Grey Areas
e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkMEvk3nj2o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2hvObzZt0g
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Come on...
So, if they implement this program and it saves one life because some idiot spilled the beans over his upcoming suicide, then I say go for it!
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Look who's talking
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More cronie contracts
More lives could be saved funding healthcare programs for the 46 million people living without health insurance while the Dow breaks a record today.
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As for the nuttty left who see some human rights violation, since when was the Internet private? Shut your trap hole and go rant about me on your blog.
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Lovely!
Oh, since your not with us, you must be against us...BAM!...Siberian labor camp!
What's that? Taxes are too high?...BAM!...
Oh you lost 2 sons in Iraq?...BAM!...
You don't like our medical system?...BAM!...
Yeah, lots of practical uses!
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Anyway, I wonder what is the corelation between a blog (a democratic form of free speach :)) ) and terorism ... if everyone in my country would take a gun and go to kill the government EVERYBODY is speaking about in very bad words, we would be a 10million-killer-country :) To criticize doesnt mean to kill. But in the other direction, to understand doesnt mean to kill as well ;)
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1. A religious sheep whose never figured out that neither faith or belief in any omnipotent being doesn't make you just, moral, intelligent or otherwise insightful.
2. Someone who achieves personal gain from his position of power.
10million-killer-country
Seems we're working on that one - just give us some time...
Anyone who buys into this whole idea that we can actually WIN a war against ideology through violance of those who belive in it is either a politician who knows better but personally gains from selling the idea to a vast majority of suckers or someone who is a brainwashed loser (both of which seem to be in abundance in the good ol' U.S. of A and I'm not sure which scares me more).
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