The Fed to Monitor Billions Of Conversations On Facebook, Twitter, Forums

[bobbyw24]

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The Federal Reserve Plans To Identify “Key Bloggers” And Monitor Billions Of Conversations About The Fed On Facebook, Twitter, Forums And Blogs

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

http://www.scribd.com/doc/66281284/Frbny-Social-Media-Rfp

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-federal-reserve-plans-to-identify-key-bloggers-and-monitor-billions-of-conversations-about-the-fed-on-facebook-twitter-forums-and-blogs

[bobbyw24]

Thank the monitors will check out this site?

[Rael]

Facebook, Twitter etc are public places. It's not like they haven't had the ability to read the stuff before. That website specializes in scaremongering.

[bobbyw24]

Facebook, Twitter etc are public places. It's not like they haven't had the ability to read the stuff before. That website specializes in scaremongering.

True--so check out the primary source, the FRBNY

http://www.scribd.com/doc/66281284/Frbny-Social-Media-Rfp

[bobbyw24]

US Army was monitoring protests against Federal Reserve in 2008

The blogosphere has exploded with interest over the Federal Reserve’s move to follow in the footsteps of the Obama campaign’s “Attack Watch” by monitoring and identifying its critics, but many seem to have missed the obvious intention of the announcement – it’s an intimidation tactic designed to chill dissent.

http://www.infowars.com/fed-program-to-monitor-conversations-is-intimidation-tactic/

[Rael]

True--so check out the primary source, the FRBNY

http://www.scribd.com/doc/66281284/Frbny-Social-Media-Rfp

I don't dispute that the story is true. I'm just saying that website and others like it will grab any story they can and make it sound like the world is about to come to an end.

[bobbyw24]

I don't dispute that the story is true. I'm just saying that website and others like it will grab any story they can and make it sound like the world is about to come to an end.

Agreed--it excels at Hyperbole

[sratiug]

I'm sure Zippy will have the positive spin on this... come on Zippy, tell us how vital this monitoring is for our financial well being and how it will not cost us anything because it comes out of FED profits.

[Lafayette]

Federal Reserve

Ben Bernanke can lick my balls!

End the FED

FED Federal Reserve FED



Have i been tracked yet?

[John F Kennedy III]

Guys if you don't think the government has been monitoring your every move on the internet every time you've ever been on the internet I have a bridge in Alaska to sell you.

[FrankRep]

Guys if you don't think the government has been monitoring your every move on the internet every time you've ever been on the internet I have a bridge in Alaska to sell you.
Before it was viewed as a silly "Conspiracy Theory." When the Government tells you they are doing it, people tend to believe it more.

[John F Kennedy III]

Before it was viewed as a silly "Conspiracy Theory." When the Government tells you they are doing it, people tend to believe it more.

Yep. And the funny thing about alot of conspiracy theories is they tend to be true. It is government conditioning for people to automatically dismiss something as a conspiracy theory. We are supposed to question our government at every turn, not elevate them to infallible saint status and call everyone who questions them a conspiracy theorist.

Sadly I'm sure there will still be people that won't believe this. As with many things, even the really crazy stuff, you can have them admitting it in video or their own writing and the general public won't believe that people in power would do something like that.

[Ronulus]

So.................they are still going to ignore Ron Paul?

[FrankRep]

Support H.R. 1094, The Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-1094)
To abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks, to repeal the Federal Reserve Act, and for other purposes.



As the Federal Reserve disseminates more information about its secret dealings abroad, giving loans to foreign banks, bailing out industries, inflating the money supply via the creation of endless supplies of paper money (thereby devaluing the currency and causing prices to rise), it is clear that the Federal Reserve does more harm than good and that its policies of lowering the federal funds rate in the fall of 2001 was the catalyst for the unsustainable housing bubble that collapsed in late 2007/2008.

Congressman Ron Paul’s (R-Texas) perseverance in trying to rectify the heavy inflation and financial instability inflicted on Americans through the monetary policies of the Federal Reserve is highly laudable, and his new legislation to abolish the Fed (H.R. 1094) needs massive support to achieve passage. Contact your U.S. Representative and ask him or her to cosponsor and support the passage of H.R. 1094 to “End the Fed” in the 112th Congress.


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