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American Intelligence and Election Hacking
07 Nov 2018 11:05 #61
by ScienceChic
What you can do is regulate the social media and search engine companies so that they are more transparent with the paid content they allow and adhere to their terms of service more rigorously. They absolutely must be devoting more resources to tracking and booting bots and trolls. Facebook needs to be broken up, it's a monopoly and has repeatedly demonstrated a horrific lack of concern for its users data and shitty oversight, non-existent data protection policies, and crappy customer service.
As for lobbyists, I don't want to get rid of them for they serve an important function in helping to educate our representatives. However, the money that corrupts the practice of lobbying must be removed. No gifts, no money to campaigns, they can only meet with Congress critters in their offices (no restaurants, hotels, ski trips, etc) for a set amount of time so everyone has an equal opportunity to get in front of the representative. Lobbying should be fair, transparent, and no quid pro quo.
Back to election hacking, this report was just released by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office and I'm still working my way through it. I highly recommend reading at least the Summary Report at the beginning (it's not letting me quote it here). Below is a screen shot of some posts by the reporter from whom I found this.
Investigation into the use of data analytics in political campaigns
A report to Parliament
6 November 2018
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
Replied by ScienceChic on topic American Intelligence and Election Hacking
One huge problem with your idea FH, I have My Mountain Town set that it will not open outside of North America (not even Europe); I still have foreign accounts joining, trying to join and/or hack this site every day (India, China, Indonesia, Turkey, Russia, Pakistan, etc). It's a breeze for them to use proxy servers here in the U.S. and, as evidenced by the Russian interference in our 2016 elections and documented in the OSC's indictments, their agents will even physically come here and set up work space on our own soil and use our servers. You cannot prevent the malicious use of social media/the internet by foreign hostiles.FredHayek wrote: This international election meddling on social media will be a problem most likely forever. The only way I see to stop it is to make sites like Facebook and Twitter country sensitive. So they only posts an American would see would be American. I think this is a horrible solution. I have FB and Twitter people from all over the world in my network. Maybe we just have to accept it as a continuing problem. For decades foreign governments like Saudi Arabia and Canada have bought influence in DC with lobbyists, why not also permit it through our media and social media? I read British and European papers, Al Jazeera bought a media company through Al Gore. The world is getting smaller, just live with it.
What you can do is regulate the social media and search engine companies so that they are more transparent with the paid content they allow and adhere to their terms of service more rigorously. They absolutely must be devoting more resources to tracking and booting bots and trolls. Facebook needs to be broken up, it's a monopoly and has repeatedly demonstrated a horrific lack of concern for its users data and shitty oversight, non-existent data protection policies, and crappy customer service.
As for lobbyists, I don't want to get rid of them for they serve an important function in helping to educate our representatives. However, the money that corrupts the practice of lobbying must be removed. No gifts, no money to campaigns, they can only meet with Congress critters in their offices (no restaurants, hotels, ski trips, etc) for a set amount of time so everyone has an equal opportunity to get in front of the representative. Lobbying should be fair, transparent, and no quid pro quo.
Back to election hacking, this report was just released by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office and I'm still working my way through it. I highly recommend reading at least the Summary Report at the beginning (it's not letting me quote it here). Below is a screen shot of some posts by the reporter from whom I found this.
Investigation into the use of data analytics in political campaigns
A report to Parliament
6 November 2018
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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