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No finding has been made that they violated anything, nor is there anything suggesting that they "probably" violated anything. The article you linked to says t
by downandout 9y ago
No finding has been made that they violated anything, nor is there anything suggesting that they "probably" violated anything. The article you linked to says that a radical left-wing group called Common Cause filed a complaint with the FEC saying that in their opinion, a violation has been committed. It means absolutely nothing at this point.
This wasn't an action instigated by the FEC because a professional decided that there is probable cause to believe that something happened. This is more akin to a neighbor who was angry at not being invited to a party weeks earlier calling the police and filing a false noise complaint.
Finally, the equivalence is that Obama used the data outside of the Facebook developer TOS at the time, which stated that the data acquired through the API was supposed to only be used for the operation of their apps. By all accounts, including celebratory news articles sourced directly from campaign staffers, they used that data in violation of the developer TOS for campaign strategy and ad targeting purposes - with great effect. ~199 million people that did not authorize Obama to have their data had it handed to him anyway, for the express purpose of defeating a candidate that about half of them wanted to be President. I'm not sure how that's not far worse than the CA situation.
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoCommon Cause is a radical left-wing group? Since when? And by what definition?
- downandout 9y agoThe liberal media refers to them as "Left Center," [1] however I think by most reasonable individuals' definition, they'd be considered "left wing". Regardless, they are on the left side, as in, biased against the right. [1] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/common-cause/ https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/common-cause/
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoSo "left center", as viewed by the liberal media, translated into "radical left wing" when viewed by, presumably, someone in the center? Sorry, I don't buy it. (And yes, I know full well that much of the media leans left, some rather strongly.) For what it's worth, Wikipedia says they have been identified as "liberal-leaning", but also as "nonpartisan". It also notes that they were founded by a Republican.
- asveikau 9y agoHmm, another American who doesn't realize the US basically has choices between center-right Democrats and hard-right Republicans...
- Mononokay 9y agoOr he's referring to them according to the relative position of them compared to other political ideologies in the place of relevance to his statement. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- asveikau 9y agoNo, this is a common thing by hard-right factions to phrase the center-rightists as a bunch of commies. There is no genuine left left, we have had a massive rightward shift over decades, and this only becomes more true over time. Witness that the "socialized" Obamacare is actually a repackaged version of a republican proposal from 1994.
- musage 9y agoRadical comes from radix which means root. The exact meaning of radical left-wing may be up to debate, but it doesn't mean "ever so slightly left of mainstream", downvotes or cuteness don't change that.