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the revelation that an Obama administration staffer is advocating government-sponsored infiltration and disruption of groups of conspiracy
theorists,
Who is Ellie Light ?
connect.cleveland.com...
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samanthapower.blogspot.com...
I believe Ellie Light is a journalist by the name of Samantha Power. The meaning of the name ellie is light. An Ellie is also a national magazine
award which Ms. Power won in 2005 for a piece in New Yorker magazine, entitled Dying in Darfur.
She worked for then Senator Barack Obama and then on his presidential campaign before she was forced to resign for referring to Hillary Clinton as a
monster.
While there, she met then later married Cass Sunstein who works in the Obama administration as Administrator of the White House Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs .
Wwhile at Harvard Law School, Sunstein co-wrote a truly pernicious paper proposing that the U.S. Government employ teams of covert agents and
pseudo-"independent" advocates to "cognitively infiltrate" online groups and websites
Posted on Obama has suspicious number of letter-writing fans named 'Ellie Light' on January 23, 2010, 2:08PM
Cass Sunstein's despicable ideas on regulating the internet
www.americanthinker.com...
I imagine that this forum is infiltrated,
Cass Sunstein, a Harvard Law professor who has been appointed to a shadowy post that will grant him powers that are merely mind-boggling,
explicitly supports using the courts to impose a "chilling effect" on speech that might hurt someone's feelings. He thinks that the bloggers have
been rampaging out of control and that new laws need to be written to corral them.
Advance copies of Sunstein's new book, "On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done," have gone out to reviewers
ahead of its September publication date, but considering the prominence with which Sunstein is about to be endowed, his worrying views are fair game
now. Sunstein is President Obama's choice to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. It's the bland titles that should
scare you the most.
In "On Rumors," Sunstein reviews how views get cemented in one camp even when people are presented with persuasive evidence to the contrary. He
worries that we are headed for a future in which "people's beliefs are a product of social networks working as echo chambers in which false rumors
spread like wildfire." That future, though, is already here, according to Sunstein. "We hardly need to imagine a world, however, in which people and
institutions are being harmed by the rapid spread of damaging falsehoods via the Internet," he writes. "We live in that world. What might be done to
reduce the harm?"
Sunstein's book is a blueprint for online censorship as he wants to hold blogs and web hosting services accountable for the remarks of commenters on
websites while altering libel laws to make it easier to sue for spreading "rumors."
www.associatedcontent.com...
Ellie Light: Who is She and What Does She Want?
Just thought it was interesting.
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