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> It's like saying if Obama visits Facebook or Google headquarters these companies now are CIA outlets I feel like you should have used a better analogy, since
by knewter 14y ago
> It's like saying if Obama visits Facebook or Google headquarters these companies now are CIA outlets
I feel like you should have used a better analogy, since Facebook is effectively a CIA outlet. They received funding from them.
- brown9-2 14y agogot a citation?
- eli 14y agoFacebook at one point took some funding from some people who had some tenuous connections to the CIA's VC fund. Saying they are a "CIA outlet" is pretty far out into Alex Jones conspiracy theory territory.
- Adam503 14y agoThere were 15 different Federal Intelligence agency just in the DC White Pages! You think all the employees of 15 different Federal Intelligence agencies (that they admit to, or all the private subcontractors like BLACKWATER) take no secret actions? All those reflexively flinging "conspiracy theory" labels are just sheep in deep, deep denial.
- smsm42 14y agoYou are using false dichotomy here. Intelligence agencies, of course, perform clandestine activities. That does not mean these activities are in the form your favorite conspiracy theory describes. E.g., they probably watch persons of interest, but no, they probably are not in the least interested in your facebook updates, unless you happened to maintain active email correspondence with Usama Bin-Laden circles.
- eli 14y agoAh, of course... so that means the fact that there's no evidence to support you theory is itself evidence to support your theory. Ingenious!
- Rastafarian 14y agoDo you really believe Facebook is not sending all their data to CIA?
- sp332 14y agoThe CIA doesn't have the infrastructure for that. FB just holds the data on their own servers and lets the CIA look at it there.
- Rastafarian 14y agoSeriously? The combined annual budget of CIA, NSA, FBI, Pentagon, occupation forces, etc. is around two trillion $ per year, but they don't have the infrastructure ...
- sp332 14y agoHm, NSA, possibly. FBI, no. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/how-fbi-technology-woes-let-fort-hood-shooter-slip-by/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/how-fb... CIA, probably not much better off, for the same reasons.
- smsm42 14y agoYes, I do. What CIA would do with so many lolcats? Unless they found a way to make lolcat-powered drones, in which case it is really scary. Seriously, though, what CIA would do with such amount of useless data? I could in principle believe Facebook cooperates with targeted surveillance requests (though doing something secret on facebook is incredibly stupid, but there are stupid terrorists too), sending all their data to CIA would be pretty useless.
- Rastafarian 14y agoInformation is power. And the guys in and around CIA are starving for power.