From your own reference: All of the Obama supporters who traded their personal information for a ticket to a rally or an e-mail alert about the vice presidenti

From your own reference: All of the Obama supporters who traded their personal information for a ticket to a rally or an e-mail alert about the vice presidential choice, or opted in on Facebook or MyBarackObama can now be mass e-mailed at a cost of close to zero. That's a ...newsletter? Right? How is that comparable, except in "It's on the internet" terms, to the Russian government secretly funding ad campaigns using illicitly gained psychometric data?