Just prior to his appointment as President Obama’s so-called regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein wrote a lengthy academic paper suggesting the government should “infiltrate” social network websites, chat rooms and message boards.
Such “cognitive infiltration,” Sunstein argued, should be used to enforce a U.S. government ban on “conspiracy theorizing.”
Among the beliefs Sunstein classified as a “conspiracy theory” is advocating that the theory of global warming is a deliberate fraud.
The find comes as a government document reportedly relates the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s command center routinely monitors dozens of popular websites, including Facebook, Twitter, Hulu, WikiLeaks and news sites including the Huffington Post and Drudge Report.
Reuters reported that a “privacy compliance review” issued by DHS last November confirms that since at least June 2010, the department’s national operations center has been operating a “Social Networking/Media Capability” which involves regular monitoring of “publicly available online forums, blogs, public websites and message boards.”
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Too bad you can’t ban the speech of really stupid people like Sunstein. I’ve read many of his “writing” this guy is a complete nut job.
sunstein if far from stupid, this thing is one VERY, VERY,off the charts, dangerous, sort of human being!!!
No breaking news here. Glenn Beck exposed this guy a couple of years ago and called him “…the most dangerous man in America” after Obama named him the regulatory czar. No surprise we have been inundated with thousands of onerous regs since then. They even tried to make farmers have to have a commercial driver’s license just to drive their farm tractors, but that went nowhere very quickly. Next year him and a whole lotta other czars will be added to the unemployment rolls.