I am setting up this blog to address a number of technical and legal issues that, over the long run, can affect the freedom of media newbies like me to speak freely on the Internet and other low-cost media that have developed in the past ten years.
Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!
Democrats blame Zuck, Facebook for their own past laziness
Daniel Henninger puts the most convincing spinyet on Mark
Zuckerberg’s testimony.That is to say,
it wasn’t Mark’s job to catch Russian bots, it was Obama’s.Hillary Clinton didn’t lose the election because
of Facebook, or because of the Comey letter;she lost because she ran a complacent campaign and had behaved badly
herself, at least in terms of showing the technical competence to run things
now. And, of course, there is the Electoral College problem.
Of course, Trump isn’t competent either;and both parties now have problems attracting
the right kind of talent to run for public office.That’s a systematic failure.You can imagine people a lot more capable of
actually doing the job of being president:Chris Cuomo, Anderson Cooper, both journalists and both rather
geeky.David Hogg turned 18 today, and
he talks like he really wants to do public service.17 years too young.The irony is one wonders how Mark Zuckerberg
would function in office.Asperger’s
syndrome in the White House?You can
imagine some business executives a lot more suited than Trump – Mark Cuban,
Barbara Corcoran (both on Shark Tank), and Tim Cook.Suddenly the idea of LGBT candidates comes
up, maybe even trans (who knows national security better than Kristin Beck?)
Seriously, we really do have a problem.Raising money for candidates seems pimpy and
unwelcome.But that’s part of our own
cultural divide, the enemies can exploit. Maybe we have to get over that. Of course we have to take into account Cambridge's claim that the data wasn't used for the election -- and now there is speculation about a possible paid version of Facebook.
There is a conceptual problem with the way we have leveraged
user-generated content, offered by speakers who (like me) want to be noticed
and be seen as “influencers” without going through the grime of partisanship.We sensed some of this back around 2005 when
there was a flap over the idea that bloggers could be unintentionally making de
facto campaign contributions with free content (not paying its own way the way
normally published material did).Since
vanity publishing had not become a practicable vehicle for self-expression
until the late 90s, there is a certain gratuitousness to it – apart from its
challenge to working with others in a spirit of shared partisanship (or “solidarity”).That alone sets up the possibility of
combining truly hacked information (like from Equifax) on the dark web with provocative
speech to target identifiable individuals – taking what the Russians did with
groups (pitting them against each other) to a new, more dangerous level.But a lot of this had been going on before Cambridge
made its heist.This sounds like a
profound problem in the way we conduct our “politics” and it relates to our
personal morals, our personal stake in other people. April 13: I had a conversation today indicating that Aleksandr Kogan was the main conduit for misuse of Cambridge data, based on one personality survey he had put on Facebook
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