GEG Commentary

24 American States Have Proposed Campus ‘Free Speech’ Laws

March 21, 2018 ZeroHedge 0

Colleges and universities are not bound by Constitution – only the federal government is. “Congress shall pass no law” to restrict speech. Schools are not bound by that. However, most colleges and universities receive federal money, so it would be an easy thing to require that they comply with the Constitution if they want the money – but federal politicians apparently are not interested in taking that stand.

Freedom

China Expands Program to Rate Citizen Behavior and Punish Those with Low Scores

March 21, 2018 Daily Caller 0

Chinese authorities have been using a ā€œsocial creditā€ system that rates citizens to determine if they may purchase plane or train tickets. The system rates users on personal characteristics, behavior and preference, social relationships. It draws data from a person’s shopping history, use of free time, and complaints from others. It has the appearance of being impartial and based on public demand but, in reality, it is merely a sophisticated method of engineering human behavior.

Globalism

California: Orange County Supervisors to Spend $90 Million on Homeless Problem Amplified by Illegal Aliens

March 21, 2018 Gateway Pundit 1

Hundreds of homeless people will be relocated to tent cities in high-end communities that include Irvine, Huntington Beach, and Laguna Niguel. [It is predictable that, the more money is taken from working people with homes to pay for unemployed people without homes, the fewer working people there will be and the more homeless there will be. The process will continue until everyone will be dependent on the state for homes and food and health care and jobs and …. In other words, classical Communism will be upon us.]

Politics

Facebook Allowed Democrats to Harvest Its Data to Bolster Their Email List

March 21, 2018 Breitbart 0

Carol Davidsen, the former media director for the Obama campaign in 2012, revealed that Democrats were able to “suck out the entire social graph” or network of friends from individuals on Facebook, which they used to bolster their email lists. Davidsen says that, when Facebook found out, did nothing to stop the process (which they could have done) because they liked what was being done with the names.

Kakistocracy

Facebook Lost $40 Billion After Allowing Private Company to Data-Mine 50 Million Accounts

March 21, 2018 Jake Morphonios 0

In 2016, the company was paid $6 million to mine 50-million Facebook accounts on behalf of presidential candidate Donald Trump. The information was used to craft messages to manipulate voters based on their views expressed on Facebook. Cambridge uses contractors for highly unethical operations, including the use of bribery, sexual entrapment, and blackmail. If you think politics produces strange bedfellows, this commentary will provide you with lots of support for your convictions.