Just a Thought

If Obama ran a very successful advertising campaign, can he be sued for false advertising when he fails to deliver on his campaign promises?

Just a thought.

Sprint served 8 million customer GPS coordinate requests to law enforcement in one year

Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers' (GPS) location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009. This massive disclosure of sensitive customer information was made possible due to the roll-out by Sprint of a new, special web portal for law enforcement officers.

If you build it, they will come... and infringe on your privacy.

Obama escalates war in Afghanistan giving strikingly similar reasons as Bush's escalation in Iraq

It is almost as if Obama and his advisors are guilty of plagiarism, or at the very least unoriginality. They're contributing nothing to the intellectual reasons for advocating war. See Glenn Greenwald's take on the subject.

Obama says Tibet is part of China

Now I have never been a huge Free Tibet advocate, but many progressive Obama supporters are, and this comes as the latest in a long string of middle fingers from Obama to his liberal base. Turley notes that Obama, in a break from past presidents, has affirmed Tibet as being part of China. Never let anyone tell you that Obama hasn't worked for change... for the worse.

Obama supports limiting of free speech to bar criticism of religion

Alright, the continuation of Bush-era surveillance and rendition policies was rather expected, but this is straight out of left field. Obama has joined with other UN members pushing a resolution to restrict free speech in the case of blasphemy. Obama is looking more like a hard-core right-wing fundamentalist by the day.

Obama releases white house logs, kind of

Obama will release logs of white house visitors from here on out. He will not release logs from anytime before now (which, of course, were the logs that everyone wanted to see who was influencing his policies in his first days in office). He also has provisions for not releasing the logs in the case in which it will harm national security, etc. Let's hope he doesn't abuse those provisions, but frankly I'm not too hopeful.

Obama tries, fails to keep recipients of stimulus money secret

Yet another strange interpretation of "transparency."