Posts Tagged ‘co-opted’

Welcome to the #OWS 99% Movement “We Will NOT Be Co-Opted”

Washington’s Blog Sunday, October 9, 2011 Preface from Washington’s Blog: Both mainstream Democratic and Republican parties are working furiously behind the scenes to co-opt the Wall Street protests. But as the Associated Press notes, the protesters are fed up with both mainstream parties, as are most of the American people. A P.R. professional says that the mainstream media’s ridicule of the protests […]

Internet firms co-opted for surveillance: experts

  Georgina ProdhanReuters October 2, 2011 Internet companies such as Google, Twitter and Facebook are increasingly co-opted for surveillance work as the information they gather proves irresistible to law enforcement agencies, Web experts said this week. Although such companies try to keep their users’ information private, their business models depend on exploiting it to sell […]