{"id":270801,"date":"2018-04-12T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=270801"},"modified":"2018-04-13T17:01:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T21:01:08","slug":"zuckerberg-obfuscates-helping-obama-harvest-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/04\/12\/zuckerberg-obfuscates-helping-obama-harvest-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg Obfuscates on Helping Obama Harvest Your Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Oh! You know, we\u2019ve played the sound bites here a couple or three times here, Carol — Carol — whatever. The Obama tech wizardette who claims that she succeeded in getting every Facebook user for the Obama campaign in 2012<\/a>. And the New York Times wrote two or three stories about the geniuses in the Obama high-tech team that did this. And she is now adding to it. She said, “Yeah, not only did we get users, we got the entire social graph.” Do you know what the social graph is? (interruption)<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t. Okay, well, let me tell you what the social graph is, \u2019cause I guarantee you there isn\u2019t a senator up there that knows what it is, either. When you say, as this Carol whatever her last name is… Robertson? That\u2019s not what it is, but whenever you hear her say that they got the social graph, the whole social graph, that means they got every user and every user\u2019s known friends. That\u2019s what the social graph is.<\/p>\n

The social graph is not just Hoovering up the data of every user. It\u2019s also Hoovering up the data of every friend that every user has. And she\u2019s out there bragging that they pulled this off. Well, yesterday I think Zuckerberg denied this. You know, she\u2019s saying that Facebook found out about it, because, after the election, Facebook came to the Obama high-tech team and started recruiting. They wanted to find people they could hire, \u2019cause the Obama tech team was filled with a bunch of geniuses. The New York Times said so.<\/p>\n

And the Facebook team shows up and this Obama high-tech babe, Carol, says, “Yeah, they came in and they tried to hire and they marveled at what we had done — and they didn\u2019t stop us because they said they were ‘on our side,'” meaning Facebook was for Obama in 2012. Of course, no mystery about that. I think Zuckerberg tried to deny this yesterday. “Nah-nah-nah-nah. That didn\u2019t happen. We\u2019re not on anybody\u2019s side,” and so forth and so on. I think it…<\/p>\n

Maybe it was Steve Scalise had brought it up, but it took two days for this example to even be brought up and asked of Zuckerberg. To me, it\u2019s question No. 1. You got the Obama tech team wizardette bragging that they were able to suck up every user\u2019s data in the 2012 campaign and utilize it for targeted advertising and voter outreach and what have you. The New York Times is writing stories on what a bunch of geniuses these people are and what a genius Obama is for hiring them.<\/p>\n

To me, that\u2019s question No. 1. But we\u2019re talking about user privacy and user agreements and so forth. And it\u2019s rooted, I think, in a lack of understanding on the part of elected officials about the tech itself. I\u2019m not talking about Facebook policy but rather just the technological things that make it all possible. For example, Zuckerberg was repeatedly asked why Facebook cannot prevent hate speech and why can\u2019t Facebook identify and deny service to hate groups. Now, you want to talk about bizarre.<\/p>\n

\"\"You know, hate speech and hate groups to me are as specious as the concept of a hate crime. Let\u2019s say you go out there and you murder somebody. Okay. We\u2019ve got laws saying you can\u2019t do it — and if you do it with premeditation, you\u2019re going to jail, probably for life. You might even get the electric chair. But now we\u2019ve added to it, that if you hated the person you killed because you\u2019re a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe then we can really lower the boom on you.<\/p>\n

Purely politics. Hate crime? That\u2019s nothing more than the left taking control of the language and trying to structure degrees of crime based on prejudice that they want to stamp out. Same with hate speech. Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook are somehow supposed to stop hate speech? And you have members of Congress asking why Facebook cannot prevent hate speech and hate groups?<\/p>\n

There are billions of users on Facebook, and these senators want to know why Zuckerberg can\u2019t prevent that kind of stuff? Okay. Turn it around. Why can\u2019t the government prevent crime and hate in a country of a few hundred million people? I mean, why can\u2019t you guys write laws that get rid of hate? If you want Zuckerberg or social media to get rid of it, why don\u2019t you write laws yourselves and get rid of it? It can\u2019t be done.<\/p>\n

Because it\u2019s a manufactured state of mind that is entirely subjective based on what a bunch of screwball liberals think. Hate crime, hate groups. It\u2019s nothing more than a new form of censorship. Here come these members of Congress asking about it because they think that this is what the American people\u2019s genuine concerns are, because they think that the Drive-By Media is representing a majority of people\u2019s opinions in this country, which isn\u2019t the case, as you know.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Steve Scalise yesterday talking to Zuckerberg about Carol Davidsen bragging about all the stuff they got from Facebook for Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n

SCALISE: In 2008 and 2012, there was also a lot of this done. One of the lead digital — or heads of the Obama campaign said recently, “Facebook was surprised we were able to suck out the whole social graph, but they didn\u2019t stop us once they realized that was what we were doing. They came to office in the days following election recruiting and were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn\u2019t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.” That\u2019s a direct quote from one of the heads of the Obama digital team. What would she mean by “they,” Facebook, “were on our side”?<\/p>\n