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The Federal Reserve Plans To Identify “Key Bloggers” And Monitor Billions Of Conversations About The Fed On Facebook, Twitter...
This title reminded Elliott of a story about Lyndon B. Johnson: "When Lyndon Johnson ran for Congress, legend says, he wanted to spread the rumor that his opponent was a pig-f*cker. Johnson's campaign manager said, 'Lyndon, you know he doesn't do that!' Johnson replied, 'I know. I just want to make him deny it.'" (Now That's Amore)
We have forced the Fed to worry about what people are saying about it, when for generations no one asked questions. Now they'd like to get people to self-censor before they write anything negative. ~ Ilene
The Federal Reserve Plans To Identify “Key Bloggers” And Monitor Billions Of Conversations About The Fed On Facebook, Twitter, Forums And Blogs
Courtesy of Michael Snyder of Economic Collapse
The Federal Reserve wants to know what you are saying about it. In fact, the Federal Reserve has announced plans to identify "key bloggers" and to monitor "billions of conversations" about the Fed on Facebook, Twitter, forums and blogs. This is yet another sign that the alternative media is having a dramatic impact.
As first reported on Zero Hedge, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has issued a "Request for Proposal" to suppliers who may be interested in participating in the development of a "Sentiment Analysis And Social Media Monitoring Solution". In other words, the Federal Reserve wants to develop a highly sophisticated system that will gather everything that you and I say about the Federal Reserve on the Internet and that will analyze what our feelings about the Fed are. Obviously, any "positive" feelings about the Fed would not be a problem. What they really want to do is to gather information on everyone that views the Federal Reserve negatively. It is unclear how they plan to use this information once they have it, but considering how many alternative media sources have been shut down lately, this is obviously a very troubling sign.
You can read this "Request for Proposal" right here. Posted below are some of the key quotes from the document (in bold) with some of my own commentary in between the quotes....
"The intent is to establish a fair and equitable partnership with a market leader who will who gather data from various social media outlets and news sources and provide applicable reporting to FRBNY. This Request for Proposal ("RFP") was created in an effort to support FRBNY's Social Media Listening Platforms initiative."
A system like this is not cheap. Apparently the Federal Reserve Bank of New York believes that gathering all of this information is very important. In recent years, criticism of the Federal Reserve has become very intense, and most of this criticism has been coming from the Internet. It has gotten to the point where the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has decided that it had better listen to what is being said and find out who is saying it.
"Social media listening platforms are solutions that gather data from various social media outlets and news sources. They monitor billions of conversations and generate text analytics based on predefined criteria. They can also determine the sentiment of a speaker or writer with respect to some topic or document."
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York intends to listen in on "billions of conversations" and to actually determine the "sentiment" of those that are participating in those conversations.
Of course it will be those conversations that are "negative" about the Federal Reserve that will be setting off the alarm bells.
"Identify and reach out to key bloggers and influencers"
Uh oh. So they plan to "identify" key bloggers and influencers?
What exactly do they plan to do once they "identify" them?
"The solution must be able to gather data from the primary social media platforms –Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums and YouTube."
Hopefully you understand this already, but nothing posted on the Internet is ever anonymous. Everything on the Internet is gathered by a vast host of organizations and is used for a wide variety of purposes. Data mining has become a billion dollar industry, and it is only going to keep growing.
You may think that you are "anonymous" when you criticize organizations like the Fed, but the truth is that if you are loud enough they will see it and they will make a record of it.
"The solution must provide real-time monitoring of relevant conversations. It should provide sentiment analysis (positive, negative or neutral) around key conversational topics."
Why do they need to perform "sentiment analysis"?
If someone is identified as being overly "negative" about the Fed, what will they do about it?
"The solution should provide an alerting mechanism that automatically sends out reports or notifications based a predefined trigger."
This sounds very much like the kind of "keyword" intelligence gathering systems that are currently in use by major governments around the globe.
Very, very creepy stuff.
Are you disturbed yet?
For those of us that write about the Federal Reserve a lot, this is very sobering news.
I wonder what the Fed will think about the following articles that I have posted on this site....
*Celebrating Independence Yet Enslaved To Debt
*19 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Is At The Heart Of Our Economic Problems
*Is Ben Bernanke A Liar, A Lunatic Or Is He Just Completely And Totally Incompetent?
*10 Things That Would Be Different If The Federal Reserve Had Never Been Created
What is their "Social Media Monitoring Solution" going to think about those articles?
Unfortunately, this is all part of a very disturbing trend.
Recently, a very creepy website known as "Attack Watch" was launched to gather information on those saying "negative" things about Barack Obama.
Suddenly, everyone seems obsessed with what you and I are saying.
This just shows how the power of the alternative media is growing.
Not only that, but it seems as though the government also wants to gather as much information on all of us as possible.
For example, a new rule is being proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services that would force health insurance companies to submit detailed health care information about all of their customers to the federal government.
Every single day our privacy is being stripped away a little bit more.
But now it is often not just enough for them to know what we are doing and saying. Instead, the "authorities" are increasingly stepping in to silence important voices.
One of the most recent examples of this was when Activistpost was taken down by Google. We are still awaiting word on why this was done.
Sadly, the silencing of Activistpost is far from an isolated incident.
Hordes of YouTube accounts have been shut down for their political viewpoints.
Quite a few very prominent alternative media websites have been censored or attacked because of what they stand for.
So why is this happening? Well, it turns out that the power of the alternative media is growing. According to a new survey by the Pew Research Center for The People & The Press, 43 percent of Americans say that they get their news on national and international issues from the Internet. Back in 1999, that figure was sitting at just 6 percent.
The American people are sick and tired of getting "canned news", and they are increasingly turning to the Internet in a search for the truth.
As I have written about previously, the mainstream media in this country is overwhelmingly dominated by just 6 very powerful corporations....
Today, ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of just six incredibly powerful media corporations. These corporate behemoths control most of what we watch, hear and read every single day. They own television networks, cable channels, movie studios, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, music labels and even many of our favorite websites. Sadly, most Americans don't even stop to think about who is feeding them the endless hours of news and entertainment that they constantly ingest. Most Americans don't really seem to care about who owns the media. But they should. The truth is that each of us is deeply influenced by the messages that are constantly being pounded into our heads by the mainstream media. The average American watches 153 hours of television a month. In fact, most Americans begin to feel physically uncomfortable if they go too long without watching or listening to something. Sadly, most Americans have become absolutely addicted to news and entertainment and the ownership of all that news and entertainment that we crave is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands each year.
The "news" that we get from various mainstream sources seems to always be so similar. It is as if nearly all mainstream news organizations are reading from the same script. The American people know that they are not getting the whole truth and they have been increasingly looking to alternative sources.
The monopoly over the news that the mainstream media once possessed has been broken. The alternative media is now creating some huge problems for organizations that were once very closely protected by the mainstream media.
The American people are starting to wake up and they are starting to get very upset about a lot of the corruption that has been going on in our society.
But it turns out that the "authorities" don't like it too much when Americans try to actually exercise free speech in America today. For example, you can see recent video of female protesters in New York City being penned in by police and then brutally maced right here.
Are you sickened by that?
You should be.
What the "authorities" want is for us to shut up, sit in our homes and act as if nothing wrong is happening.
Meanwhile, they seem determined to watch us more closely than ever.
So are you going to be afraid to talk negatively about the Federal Reserve now that you know that they are going to be watching what you say on the Internet?
Please feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts below....
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i always feel like...somebody's watching me...
Paranoids can have enemies.
and i have no privacy...oh oh oh
somebody's watching me
Surprised anyone remembers this obscure old song. ;-)
Where will they get the money?
Are you fucking kidding? They have a printing press.
I think he probably is fucking kidding.
Gonna have to get an enemies of the state list together so they know who to lock up once American Spring (TM) breaks out.
Since somewhere between 75-80% of Americans want to Audit the Fed, it is going to be a very long list.
The classic error in trying to mine reality is that you get everything and nothing at the same time. We all know how great those macro models work, blind to the obvious.
A fed traitor called out in public.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFWzDFjBKUw
Guy had some cojones. Wonder if he's still alive? That couldn't happen in the US.
Anyone would be shot before being allowed to get that close to the David.
Only Ponzi schemes should depend on confidence. Governments should never need to “restore confidence”. Cascading rumours are a product of complex systems. Governments cannot stop the rumours. Simply, we need to be in a position to shrug off rumours, be robust in the face of them.
Nassim Taleb
"The "news" that we get from various mainstream sources seems to always be so similar. It is as if nearly all mainstream news organizations are reading from the same script."
Yes, Ilene, and the news WE DON'T GET is very similar,too. For the latest glaring example of this, look no further than Wall Street - right in the heart of newsland. The demonstrations started 10 days ago. Yesterday was the first time I saw any media report on this. How is it possible that such a major civil disturbance was going on right in Manhattan, and not one network - cable or otherwise - managed to give it coverage? Then, just think of all the irrelevant crap they do manage to find and broadcast.
The coverage only started after the web was busting with videos (for days) and they could no longer ignore the police brutality....and still, coverage is minimal.
Is it the 5th of November, yet?
How about this to get this database going?
FUCK YOU FED.
FUCK YOU BERNANKE.
The Federal Reserve is and always has been a rogue, criminal organization, and it must be stopped.
You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the grace of the Eternal God, will rout you out.
- Andrew Jackson
Ron Paul 2012
Having never donated any money to any presidential candidate...I just sent 2500 to Ron Paul because of this. Isn't the Fed's hundred year charter up in 2013?
Oh good. Let them spy and learn. Someday they may just feel a bit guilty and drop the keyenesian experiment gone horribly wrong.
Unfortunately for them, "public faith and confidence" is the only backing their "Federal Reserve Note" has - and it becomes worthless in a transaction when another party will not accept it in trade.
Are they gonna assacinate me if I tell the truth about them?
From the looks of your picture, you already a'sac'inated yourself ;-).
Ron Paul wants to End The Fed.
Google? Publicly traded company? Takedown?
- Ned
Everyone is critical of the Federal Reserve. They don't have to look far. Basically, 99% of financial blogs: mainstream or not. This is because Bernake and his motley crew have screwed things up on purpose; so their buddies on wall street can gamble free. The Fed should be stripped of their monetary authority. It's that simple. Congress and the American people should control the fate of their own contries.
The corrupted politicians who have edorsed and encouraged FED action should, frankly, be hung for treason.
One has to wonder why the people would allow a private institution to control their monetary policy: then watch them act in their OWN best interest, not those of the people.
One need look at the political cowardice of the leaders; and the agenda's they push. Scum.
This revelation makes think about how the major media is controlled by the powers that be and why we are all fed canned news.
This revelation also makes me think how screwed we really all are. IMO societal breakdown can't be too far off.
"We must go forward, cautiously, and consolodate each acquire position, because already the 'inferior social stratum of society (us)' is giving unceasing signs of agitation.
Let us make use of the courts...When, throught he? laws intervention, the common people shall have lost their homes, they will be more easy to control and govern, they shall not be able to resist the strong hand of government acting in accordance with the control of the leaders of finance."
US Bankers Magazine, 1892.
"We must keep the people busy with political antagonisms. We'll therefore speed up the question of reform for the democratic party, and protection for the republican party.
By divinding the electorate this way, we'll be able? to have them spend their energies at struggling amongst themselves on questions that have no importance to us."
United States Bankers Magazine, 1892.
All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again. so say we all.
Historical perspective. Dangerous stuff.
"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion—when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing—when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors ...when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you—when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is DOOMED. - Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
Psst, Psst, Ben, Ben, can you hear me? Yes, good, then go and FUCK yourself and pass my comment onto the rest of your FED and BANKER mates. You're all a pack of RAT FUCKERS!
"I am not a rat fucker. Why, I have only made out with a rat, but it was in drag, at a Hotel 6 in New Jersey. But I was drunk." - Ben Bernacke
/sarc
i have positive feelings about the fed
in fact, i'd positively like to fuck them all in the ass with a baseball bat
"What the "authorities" want is for us to shut up, sit in our homes and act as if nothing wrong is happening"
almost sounds like o'reilly .....doesnt it?
he said almost the same thing about protesting the war on terror...shut up being the key item
Now let's all type something nice so Bernansky can feel all warm and fuzzy while drinks his coffee this morning.
What a stupid fucking idea. The Fed has two mandates, neither is to play Big Brother or make bloggers or even Congress happy.
on behalf of all canadians, FUCK YOU FED!!! AND YOU TO oBLAHma, AND YOURS!!!!!!
i typed quickly so nobody would notice!
Sounds expensive. Good thing they dont have to borrow money to fund their war on America and can just print it.
When you hear something naughty that's said,
Or read bloggers that fill you with dread,
Please don't feel queasy,
It's really quite easy -
Just pick up the phone and dial F-E-D !
Bruce you sum it up well. Now the Fed just wants to bring it out in the open to one, scare posters and two, too legally shut you down or worse send homeland security to your door to question you when you disagree with them.
The gestapo coming to a home near you!
seems we have a shortage of lone nut gunmen, white middle age loners clinging to guns and bibles for a reason..1776 was long ago poor king George only wishes he had the powers now owned by the eilte fascists.
fluride in water, mind control thru media & government education..has it's effect..well maybe not the fluride LOL.
the fed is a cancer on the body of America and just as hard to kill.
fluoride. just sayin' Just lke it's fluorescent, different from florescent.
"Obviously, any "positive" feelings about the Fed would not be a problem."
Would such posts even exist?
You'd be amazed at the number of highly educated and intelligent people who believe Central Banks are good because they give 'us' the ability to control monetary policy.
When I ask them who 'us' are, they inevitably look a bit confused.
Marc Faber ran one such beta test after the Fed's 9/21 announcement.
Because the Fed will also be identifying any with a pro-Fed "sentiment" to support and sponsor.
Heavy-handed repression is part of the arsenal (think Red Scare era, McCarthyism, FBI vs.civil rights and anti-war leaders, Patriot Act). But so too is having the MSM provide and endless caco-"phoney' of sponsored pro-establishment 'experts' to drown out the "extremists".
...and while we're at it, what about building 7? Do 49 storey buildings often just collapse when 3 of their floors catch fire?
From New Zealand: FUCK THE FED!!!!!!!
Ilene,
The Fed is proposing to do what it is already doing. Only bigger and "better".
Do you think that the Fed reads ZH EVERY DAY? They do, probably a few times a day. They read my blog, yours and tons of others. They read the comments too.
So what is happening now is just an expansion of what has already been going on for years now. The Fed is paranoid that "someone" is critical of them.
Their "eyes" are already on us. The Fed will read these words.
All this is is an excuse to hate them more. It will work just fine. They are already hated. This will make it worse. I'm happy with the surveillance. I'm happy that it puts the Fed in such a negative light. Couldn't happen to a nastier group of guys.
Well Bruce, look at it this way, maybe they will have a better health insurance policy for you in a FEMA camp. ;)
I suppose they'll do some analytics and hire some asshole at 250K a year to write a report about how no one should be able to write about Econ or the Fed on the internet unless they got a PhD fro HAARRVARRD.
Hey Fed ZH can save you a lot of time. WE GET IT.
The all seeing eye of Sauron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauron#Eye_of_Sauron
already all right there on the back of the dollar bill