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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Thursday, September 16th, 2010 8:23am PDT - promote requested by lavoll.

Haha. Way to go statist idiots.

Not crazy about corporate front group CATO, which is funded by the Scaife Foundation and Koch Industries, but blankfist really wants me to upvote this, so here goes, in the name of bromance.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Not crazy about corporate front group CATO, which is funded by the Scaife Foundation and Koch Industries, but blankfist really wants me to upvote this, so here goes, in the name of bromance.


Well, I do see how they're so evil with their anti-police-state yet somehow subliminal pro-corporatist message here. *rolls eyes*

I also wonder why @NetRunner hasn't voted for this? I guess he endorses police states.

Cato Institute:

Established: 1977
Founders: Edward Crane and Charles G. Koch
President: Edward Crane

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/cato-institute

Cato Institute was founded by Ed Crane with a $500,000 grant from Charles Koch, a chemical and petroleum heir who was active with Crane in the Libertarian Party.

Cato's corporate sponsors include: Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, Bell Atlantic Network Services, BellSouth Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, GTE Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Netscape Communications Corporation, NYNEX Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Viacom International, American Express, Chase Manhattan Bank, Chemical Bank, Citicorp/Citibank, Commonwealth Fund, Prudential Securities and Salomon Brothers. Energy conglomerates include: Chevron Companies, Exxon Company, Shell Oil Company and Tenneco Gas, as well as the American Petroleum Institute, Amoco Foundation and Atlantic Richfield Foundation. Cato's pharmaceutical donors include Eli Lilly & Company, Merck & Company and Pfizer, Inc.

Other non-Bush Administration alumni include former board members: Rupert Murdoch and Theodore J. Forstmann, also founding chairman of Empower America, now FreedomWorks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreedomWorks

>> ^blankfist:

I also wonder why @NetRunner hasn't voted for this? I guess he endorses police states.


NetRunner rarely notices videos without the all-important *politics tag.

I'll watch when I'm not at work.

Sight unseen, my take on this topic is based on two principles -- I'm a privacy rights advocate, and I'm in the camp that says you have to give your consent to have your picture taken or filmed, or put another way, you should have legal ownership of all information people collect about you.

That said, I think that goes out the window when we're talking about people collecting information about a service they consume. Corporations should be transparent about the products and services they provide, and government should be transparent about the services it provides.

Adding video to channels (Politics) - requested by NetRunner.

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