# US Government Developing To Monitor The Press and Opinions **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [October 5, 2006, 6:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-government-developing-to-monitor-the-press-and-opinions/18481 "2006-10-05T06:47:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RuBiCaNT](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rubicant/32/7622_2.png) [@RuBiCaNT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RuBiCaNT)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 6:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-government-developing-to-monitor-the-press-and-opinions/18481/1 "2006-10-05T06:47:06Z")
[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/04/us/04monitor.html?ex=1317614400&en=f56ed0a299bbe0f2&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/04/us/04monitor.html?ex=1317614400&en=f56ed0a299bbe0f2&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss) Big Brother is going to be watching!! ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 7:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-government-developing-to-monitor-the-press-and-opinions/18481/2 "2006-10-05T07:10:27Z")
So they’re writing software to automate what humans have been doing for decades? It’s no secret that we’ve always looked at other nation’s newpapers to determine how our policies are being greeted. ---
**Author:** ![Rx3](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rx3/32/7194_2.png) [@Rx3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Rx3)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 2:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-government-developing-to-monitor-the-press-and-opinions/18481/3 "2006-10-05T14:06:05Z")
Yeah, that’s standard intelligence gathering. But that’s not to say that they won’t turn it around and use it at home as well. ---
**Author:** ![JEG](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeg/32/7246_2.png) [@JEG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JEG)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-government-developing-to-monitor-the-press-and-opinions/18481/4 "2006-10-05T14:12:32Z")
C’mon, whats the worst that could happen… ---
**Author:** ![Tevenor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@Tevenor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Tevenor)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 2:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-government-developing-to-monitor-the-press-and-opinions/18481/5 "2006-10-05T14:28:43Z")
> [@JEG](#): > > C’mon, whats the worst that could happen… ![http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nagasakibomb.jpg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nagasakibomb.jpg) ![http://zvis.com/images/nuks/easy1.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/0/d/0d37556b57bc16307d382341c6eb641fd208082a.jpeg) ![http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nagasakibomb.jpg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nagasakibomb.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![StrokedZ28](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/strokedz28/32/7592_2.png) [@StrokedZ28](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/StrokedZ28)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-government-developing-to-monitor-the-press-and-opinions/18481/6 "2006-10-05T15:35:22Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > So they’re writing software to automate what humans have been doing for decades? It’s no secret that we’ve always looked at other nation’s newpapers to determine how our policies are being greeted. x2 Seems to me they are cutting out the middle men (intelligence gatherers) and putting in place a “efficient” (sp?) system. ---
**Author:** ![FightinMike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@FightinMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FightinMike)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-government-developing-to-monitor-the-press-and-opinions/18481/7 "2006-10-05T16:20:55Z")
Read a book back in high school called, The Shockwave Rider, your basic 1984 type doomsday book. In it there were Delphi pools, in which you could bet on anything. Who’s going to win the election, whos going to have the next sex scandal, everything. Point is they were actually set up by the government to monitor public opinions, and were also manipulated to change the tide of public opinion. Looks like we’re getting closer /doomsday rant ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-government-developing-to-monitor-the-press-and-opinions/18481/8 "2006-10-05T16:39:02Z")
> [@FightinMike](#): > > Read a book back in high school called, The Shockwave Rider, your basic 1984 type doomsday book. In it there were Delphi pools, in which you could bet on anything. Who’s going to win the election, whos going to have the next sex scandal, everything. Point is they were actually set up by the government to monitor public opinions, and were also manipulated to change the tide of public opinion. Looks like we’re getting closer > > /doomsday rant Are you the guy I saw on the side of the road with the aluminum foil hat with a coat hanger sticking out of it? ---
**Author:** ![StrokedZ28](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/strokedz28/32/7592_2.png) [@StrokedZ28](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/StrokedZ28)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-government-developing-to-monitor-the-press-and-opinions/18481/9 "2006-10-05T16:43:34Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > Are you the guy I saw on the side of the road with the aluminum foil hat with a coat hanger sticking out of it? No those were the prolifers on the BLVD sunday. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 5:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-government-developing-to-monitor-the-press-and-opinions/18481/10 "2006-10-05T17:05:16Z")
> [@StrokedZ28](#): > > No those were the prolifers on the BLVD sunday. Every time I see them I’m tempted to “sneeze” and mow a couple down with my Expedition. I guess that makes me a bad Republican. ---
**Author:** ![n20junkie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/n20junkie/32/7396_2.png) [@n20junkie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/n20junkie)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-government-developing-to-monitor-the-press-and-opinions/18481/11 "2006-10-05T19:21:03Z")
Go ahead and say teh words bomb and Pre$isdent on the phone a few times and see if you don’t get a call from some important people. If you think that this shit isn’t already out there your sillier than the NY times.