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I love this The Onion video that is a news report on the CIA's most successful project ever, Facebook:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0

Plot twist: The onion becomes the CIA project that fools people on using Facebook, another CIA project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0

⬐ nickthemagicman

Ha. Sneaky CIA knows me too well.

My impression is that a Never Collect Data Usable Against Minorities Pledge shouldn't be signed by people supporting exactly that to tune of billions of dollars and nearly as many users under surveillance. Unless they're full of shit. Hell, even The Onion saw how helpful such companies are:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0

I remember watching it knowing it was satire but most of the benefits were still true. I bet the people against discrimination and such at those locations are still coding away at the algorithms and data stores to make it happen. Easier to put your name on something than to make real sacrifices. Do email me, though, when a story pops up that Google or Facebook got rid of all saved data that could be used to hurt unpopular groups all thanks to such people in the company.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=technopoly

Facebook CIA project: The Onion News Network https://youtu.be/cqggW08BWO0

I believe the Onion nailed it here a couple years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0

⬐ jasonrojas

The.Onion.News.Network

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0

"400 billion Tweets and not one useful bit of data was ever transmitted"

The Onion's parody on Facebook's CIA ownership is now sounding eerily accurate. For those who haven't seen it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0

⬐ adwf

Yes, the Onion can be oddly prescient at times. This has always been the scariest for me:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-our-long-national-nigh...;

⬐ dllthomas

I always preferred http://www.theonion.com/articles/freedoms-curtailed-in-defen...;

⬐ quantumpotato_

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Once again, the Onion got there first.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0

I will start worrying when companies are legally required to let the FBI trawl through the databases without a warrant. It's hard to make a law against scraping public information.

⬐ smokeyj

Look up NSL.