And so, getting back to the title of the item, I thought my porn addiction enriched Eastern Europeans because they represent the lion's share of on-camera talent.
I was outraged to find Fox News on my television while I was flipping channels. I did not invite Fox News into my home, I was simply trying to tune to VH1 to watch Rock of Love Bus.
It's so amazing that in this country corporations are allowed to poison our food and our environment, then lobby our government to make us fight over whether we deserve to be healed. USA! USA!
has anyone considered the possibility that perhaps a friend signed these people up without their knowledge? i.e. the following scenario:
- Person A sends Person B an annoying forwarded "hate" email.
- Person B gets back at Person A by signing them up for White House emails.
Wow. The Obama admin clearly overstepped on collecting email addresses, and Gawker is trying to spin it as 'people don't know what they did, or what they're doing, so it's their fault'.
I don't remember where I read/heard this theory (I happen to be the video intern who caught the Garrett/Gibbs thing go down, so maybe I heard it on FOX, in which case, take it with a grain of salt), but...
Anyway, some of the talking heads pointed out the possibility that, to avoid violating the 1974 Privacy Act by collecting citizens' contact information itself, the Obama White House could be relying on contact information that was collected during the Bush administration and which, thanks to the Presidential Records Act, remains on file.
Personally, I think that theory is a little far-fetched, but I'd be interested to know if anyone with more knowledge about federal law can say whether this is a plausible scenario.
Obama's crew may not be guilty of anything more than bad Internet etiquette and some clever legal maneuvering here, but I'm obviously not too suspicious about their motives.
I'd see some cause for concern, however, if whatever information Obama's camp does collect will also remain available for (god forbid) a George Bush, 3.0 to use however he pleases.
Just so you're aware, the gathering and selling of email lists isn't a spam thing, but is a pretty standard way to make money for most websites. They sell their subscriber lists to marketing firms.
@Pope John Peeps II: Fair point. I was employing an expansive and pejorative sense of the word "spam." I think of all e-mail marketing messages as spam. Kind of like derisively calling a press release "flackery."
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- Person A sends Person B an annoying forwarded "hate" email.
- Person B gets back at Person A by signing them up for White House emails.
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Just call BS, people.
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Anyway, some of the talking heads pointed out the possibility that, to avoid violating the 1974 Privacy Act by collecting citizens' contact information itself, the Obama White House could be relying on contact information that was collected during the Bush administration and which, thanks to the Presidential Records Act, remains on file.
Personally, I think that theory is a little far-fetched, but I'd be interested to know if anyone with more knowledge about federal law can say whether this is a plausible scenario.
Obama's crew may not be guilty of anything more than bad Internet etiquette and some clever legal maneuvering here, but I'm obviously not too suspicious about their motives.
I'd see some cause for concern, however, if whatever information Obama's camp does collect will also remain available for (god forbid) a George Bush, 3.0 to use however he pleases.
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Just so you're aware, the gathering and selling of email lists isn't a spam thing, but is a pretty standard way to make money for most websites. They sell their subscriber lists to marketing firms.
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