If you are a social media influencer, journalist, editor, correspondent or blogger, expect the DHS to track and catalog you. The DHS is asking for a contractor to develop password-protected “Media-Monitoring Services”. “One aspect of the media coverage to be gathered is its ‘sentiment.‘” If you are a Trump supporter, you’re…

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9 Replies to “What are your allegiances ?”

  1. Horth says:

    We’re checking your files right now, Max Cantor. We’re looking at every little thing you wrote. About Trump. You better hope buddy you didnt write anything stupid.

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  2. Ed says:

    Max, your site is worth $895,000 ? That’s a lot !

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  3. Professor Thomas says:

    I am a researcher in evolutionary science. Myself and my peers have studied societies starting with the earliest human settlements. What I have learned is there is no such thing as neutral.

    You will be forced to choose. One way or another.

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  4. Max Cantor says:

    Ed. I've explained it in the post. The site worth is not just o function of traffic, while low by blog traffic numbers, it is high when demographics is accounted for.

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  5. Max Cantor says:

    A lot of people will say things, like why I didn't take a stance against Trump and such. There is no benefit to me if I did that. It is pointless.

    "Trump is attacking the press. He wants to take away the freedom of the press." -they say.

    Look, I don't care. It is not my job to judge or correct things I don't control.

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  6. Max Cantor says:

    Since you two gentlemen are obvious characters:

    "An object cannot make you good or evil. The temptation of power, forbidden knowledge, even the desire to do good can lead some down that path. But only you can change yourself.” — Bendu

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  7. Max Cantor says:

    My haters are hard at work.

    The significance of this database, however, cannot be understated. The title that I have it's not very useful, because it should have been "Trump draws the first blow to the freedom of speech." You can see it going in three phases:

    1. Number count (which is what they are ordering now)

    2. Registration (they'll ask you to register, like they do with sex offenders for example)

    3. Elimination. You don't build a databank to look at it, you build it to use it. Against the people with the "wrong" sentiment.

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