Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil

Re:Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil by 0xy on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:38PM (#22113390)

Would you accuse other campaigns of swinging the election for using similar tactics? For example in Obama's 2012 campaign his online organizing director admitted to micro-targeting, harvesting of friends lists (and admitting the users of their app probably didn't know this, and it's now against FB ToS). [1]

This same person recently founded a company that publicly boasted its tech could "sway" the 2020 election. [2]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/03/25/596805347/how-does-cambridge-...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/01/higher-ground-labs/

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Re:Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil by hackinthebochs on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @11:24PM (#22114615)

A strange reply considering the context. The moral judgment in the subtext of my comment isn't on swaying the election, its on foreign nation. The candidates and their agents are legitimately looking to sway the election in their favor. That's what campaigning is. That Obama's activities were in an effort to sway the election in his favor is an uninteresting point.

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