It looks like the Federal Reserve must have its share of social media in order to keep watch over the world.And I thought net neutrality was bad. This has not been a good day for freedom in the Divided States of America.
David DeGerolamo
From Zerohedge.com:
[The Federal Reserve] is requesting the creation of a “Social Listening Platform” whose function is to “gather data from various social media outlets and news sources.” It will “monitor billions of conversations and generate text analytics based on predefined criteria.” The Fed’s desired product should be able to “determine the sentiment [ED:LOL]
of a speaker or writer with respect to some topic or document”… “The
solution must be able to gather data from the primary social media
platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums and YouTube. It
should also be able to aggregate data from various media outlets such
as: CNN, WSJ, Factiva etc.” Most importantly, the “Listening Platform” should be able to “Handle crisis situations, Continuously monitor conversations, and Identify and reach out to key bloggers and influencers.”
Said otherwise, the Fed has just entered the counterespionage era and
will be monitoring everything written about it anywhere in the world.
After all, why ask others to snitch for you and anger everyone as Obama
found out the hard way, when you can pay others to create the supreme FIATtack WatchTM using
money you yourself can print in unlimited amounts. And once the
Internet is completely “transparent”, the Fed will next focus on
telephone conversations, and finally will simply bug each and every
otherwise “private” location in the world. Because very soon saying that
“printing money is treason” will be treason, and such terrorist
thoughts must be pre-crimed before they even occur.
From the key section of the RFP, presented in its entirety HERE
