{"id":24803,"date":"2011-02-16T10:26:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T10:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/02\/16\/is-social-networking-for-polit\/"},"modified":"2011-02-16T10:26:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T10:26:11","slug":"is-social-networking-for-polit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/16\/is-social-networking-for-polit\/","title":{"rendered":"Is social networking for political action just a covert form of &#8230;. Community Organizing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Youth for Tolerance, Invisible Children, Save Darfur coalition, Million votes against farc<\/em> &#8230;  Who are these organizations <em>connected<\/em> to?  There is a <em>long list<\/em> of them. Who is the US State Department <em>working with<\/em>?  MTV? NBC? We need to keep an eye on them.  We <em>can&#8217;t tell<\/em> if they are right or clean or <em>left or dirty<\/em>.  Are they <em>front groups<\/em>? There is a <em>long list<\/em> of them.  You need to <em>do your own homework<\/em> but don&#8217;t use a Google search.  It seems like Google may be <em>in bed with the government<\/em>.  <em>Why<\/em> is Google being kicked out of all of the other countries of the world?  Is Google just <em>a shill for the United States<\/em> Government? <em>Who is<\/em> Jared Cohen exactly?  Is he a private citizen or is he a <em>secret operative<\/em> working for the United States <em>Government<\/em>?  He is <em>the second<\/em> Google executive who has been exposed as an instigator of a revolution.  <em>Are you really comfortable<\/em> with a <em>government<\/em> partnering covertly with media organization and search engines, with social networking, so they can <em>Bring Change<\/em> that the people in Washington has designed?  Are they using what <em>we used to call<\/em> Propaganda, but that we not call &#8230; <em>Community Organizing<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Dog Whistles and Conspiracy Prompts have been <em>italicized<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>You might ask where I got these crazy ideas.  Below the fold:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<object width='320' height='260'><param name='movie' value='http:\/\/cloudfront.mediamatters.org\/static\/flash\/player.swf'><\/param><param name='flashvars' value='config=http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/cfg2?id=201102140037'><\/param><param name='allowscriptaccess' value='always'><\/param><param name='allownetworking' value='all'><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youth for Tolerance, Invisible Children, Save Darfur coalition, Million votes against farc &#8230; Who are these organizations connected to? There is a long list of them. Who is the US State Department working with? MTV? NBC? We need to keep an eye on them. We can&#8217;t tell if they are right or clean or left &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/16\/is-social-networking-for-polit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is social networking for political action just a covert form of &#8230;. Community Organizing?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33,3868],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6s3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}