RUSH: West Sacramento is in the news. Now, West Sacramento shares something with Rio Linda. I offered to move. When I lived there from 1984 to 1987, I offered to move to both places if they would name the town Limbaugh, California. I offered to move there to raise property values and to create a real estate boom, and the first place I offered was West Sacramento. They rejected it. Rio Linda was next. They rejected it.<\/p>\n
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Well, West Sacramento\u2019s in the news. They have launched a program. “West Sacramento is the first city to launch a controversial new program that watches what people post about it online. The pilot project gives [West Sacramento] city leaders a look at what\u2019s trending in the city, whether it\u2019s good or bad. It\u2019s also creating privacy concerns around how the data is being used.” So West Sacramento is monitoring social media for people making comments about the city.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s presumed here that if anybody goes online and makes bad comments about West Sacramento, that West Sacramento will let them know. “When a wave of mailbox thefts hit the city last year, people complained about it on social media, and West Sacramento was watching. City leaders were alerted to the community concerns by a new system. ‘We saw the thing that most people were talking about were mailbox thefts,\u2019 said [the mayor].<\/p>\n
“‘That\u2019s something that we might not have noticed just by waiting for people to come to city hall or filing a complaint.\u2019 The city is using ZenCity, a system that crawls through publicly available social media posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. It takes all of that data and sorts through to find what people are talking about and whether it\u2019s positive or negative.<\/p>\n
“‘The purpose of ZenCity is to see the big picture,\u2019 [the mayor] said.” Okay, now it\u2019s being portrayed here as a good thing. If people complaining about their mailboxes being stolen, we\u2019ll find out about it and we\u2019ll deal with it. But of course that kind of stuff that\u2019s never the end point. What happens if people start tweeting negative things about the mayor\u2019s daughter, or the mayor\u2019s wife, or the mayor himself or herself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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