Ostracizing non-Fedbookers

[Jim Johnson]

I agree, with Mr. Sawyer, that promotion is the major part of getting people out to events, the grander the larger.

[Russell Kanning]

that is also why you have to post on facebook too
so the fed operatives know when to show up

[Lloyd Danforth]

We need a 'Like' button on this forum

[Jim Johnson]

We need, like a button on this forum.

[Russell Kanning]

like, as if, I am soo sure

[FTL_Ian]

I made an event on Facebook and invited hundreds of people to the Shire forum.  It appears to have been a failure.  Don't know what else to do.

[Free libertarian]

Try'n get a lasso around that paranoia.

"Aliens are controlling things on earth!" <-- paranoia

"The Feds might do exactly what the Feds have done, many other times..." <-- not paranoia

...that's it!  I'm gonna make a ton of money....an alien lasso!   

[Russell Kanning]

I made an event on Facebook and invited hundreds of people to the Shire forum.  It appears to have been a failure.  Don't know what else to do.

I dont quite get what you did and what failed.

btw I can listen to ftl in the evenings with our new xm radio

[FTL_Ian]

I invited lots of people to come meet people that don't go on facebook.

Nearly no one did.

Glad you can hear us on XM!   

[Russell Kanning]

gotcha

[WithoutAPaddle]

...FB is massively filtering what its' users see, as is Google search and so forth. (Check out "DuckDuckGo" Google it, haha) People are only starting to become aware of all the filtering that goes on that mostly shows people what they want to see by running algorithms on what they "like" and share and so forth. Liberals eventually see fewer and fewer pro-Republican posts and vice versa, just as an example. Doesn't matter if your friends are posting it. Cracked did an article on this recently.

Last night, Tomm Harmon was interviewing the founder of duckduckgo, a search service that is supposedly opaque and doesn't permit the tracking of the user.  He and the host mentioned, in particular, the aspect expressed in dalebert's post that filtered search results product lists that are devoid of opposing points of view.

I see that duckduckgo has been around for at least a couple of years but hasn't gotten much traction.  I might start using it.  Here is an article I found on the subject from a British website:



Little known search engine that refuses to store data on users doubles web traffic amid NSA tapping scandal

DuckDuckGo, based in Pennsylvania, does not share user data with sites
This means fewer advertisements and results that are not skewed for users
Firm saw web traffic double in the wake of Snowden NSA tapping leak
Pro-privacy search engine one of several companies growing in this arena

By Helen Collis

PUBLISHED: 03:43 EST, 11 July 2013 | UPDATED: 02:14 EST, 23 July 2013

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2360059/DuckDuckGo-little-known-search-engine-refuses-store-data-users-doubles-web-traffic-amid-NSA-tapping-scandal.html#ixzz2aG2PnTge

Other companies have had more success, however, and Duck Duck Go is not the first search engine firm to tap into the pro-privacy market.

Competitors include Ixquick, a Dutch meta-search engine firm, based in the Netherlands and New York. It returns private meta-search results from other providers.

The article is followed by a closed string of 46 reader comments.  My favorite one is:

And once this site reaches half a billion searches a day, they'll sell out to Google or Yahoo!

[MaineShark]

Private web searching is already available:

https://www.ixquick.com/

https://www.startpage.com/

The first is a private search engine.  The second is run by the same company, but uses Google for searching - they take your search request and "repackage" it, so you get the Google results, but all Google sees is a lot of requests from Startpage.com, not you and anyone else who is using Startpage to search.