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Obama has signed a new executive order authorizing Federal agencies to perform behavioral studies on American citizens. The studies, which will be performed without express permission from participants, are designed to advance government initiatives by “nudging” citizens toward certain behaviors and choices.

“A growing body of evidence demonstrates that behavioral science insights — research findings from fields such as behavioral economics and psychology about how people make decisions and act on them — can be used to design government policies to better serve the American people,” reads the executive order, released on Tuesday.

The new program is the end result of a policy proposal the White House floated in 2013 entitled “Strengthening Federal Capacity for Behavioral Insights.”

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The initiative draws on research from University of Chicago economist Richard Thaler and Harvard law school professor Cass Sunstein, who was also dubbed Obama’s regulatory czar. The two behavioral scientists argued in their 2008 book “Nudge” that government policies can be designed in a way that “nudges” citizens towards certain behaviors and choices.

The desired choices almost always advance the goals of the federal government…

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In its 2013 memo, which was reported by Fox News at the time, the White House openly admitted that the initiative involved behavioral experimentation.

“The federal government is currently creating a new team that will help build federal capacity to experiment with these approaches, and to scale behavioral interventions that have been rigorously evaluated, using, where possible, randomized controlled trials,” the memo read.

Source: The Daily Caller

Other recent Executive Orders authorize the President and Federal Government to, among other things, shut down the internet in the event of a cyber attack, as well as to seize personal stockpiles of food and other supplies during a nationally declared emergency.

Thus, it makes complete sense that the Federal government has now given itself authorization to perform experiments on the American people.

Such ideas used to be restricted to the realm of fringe conspiracy theory.

Now they’re official policy.

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ISPs are more greedy than the oil companies.

They want to discriminate and fuck you over with absurd rates and bandwidth caps when they aren't even the ones who put forth the large costs of building the infrastructure. The vast entirely of the infrastructure in place was funded by taxpayers.

Thank god tech giants like Google/Amazon have been able to fight the ISPs lobby to get more power to just fuck over the entire country.

I feel so bad for the cities/counties who are basically held for ransom by ISPs because they have contracts with local/regional governments to distribute internet service. Which is fucking crazy because they are just cashing in with infrastructure they didn't even build themselves. And the contract doesn't allow any other providers to offer service so if you're provider who is contracted is garbage, you are only going to get garbage internet.

Honestly, I don't even know how Net Neutrality has survived this long. The ISP lobby had everything going for them, they got more money than their opponents and more influence. And the last few years they had a former CEO of CTIA become the Chairman of the FCC but Tom Wheeler somehow kept Net Neutrality in place.



I actually had to install the post blocker for the first time ever on d2jsp.

You can have much more fun on 4chan or reddit trolling than here bud.

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VI. ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE

In recent years, the Fourth Amendment's applicability in electronic searches and seizures has received much attention from the courts. With the advent of the internet and increased popularity of computers, there has been an increasing amount of crime occurring electronically. Consequently, evidence of such crime can often be found on computers, hard drives, or other electronic devices. The Fourth Amendment applies to the search and seizure of electronic devices.

Many electronic search cases involve whether law enforcement can search a company-owned computer that an employee uses to conduct business. Although the case law is split, the majority holds that employees do not have a legitimate expectation of privacy with regard to information stored on a company-owned computer. In the 2010 case of City of Ontario v. Quon (08-1332), the Supreme Court extended this lack of an expectation of privacy to text messages sent and received on an employer-owned pager.

Lately, electronic surveillance and wiretapping has also caused a significant amount of Fourth Amendment litigation.