White House Seeks to Capture and Archive Citizens’ Comments on its Facebook, YouTube, MySpace Sites »
Posted By RTHTGakaRoland 2 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
Anyone who posts comments on the White House’s Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter pages will have their statements captured and permanently archived by the federal government, according to a plan that the White House is now seeking a contractor to carry out.
The Executive Office of the President is looking for a private contractor to capture and archive comments and information posted on social networking and new media sites where the White House has established a presence.
The White House did not respond to questions from CNSNews.com about this RFQ and whether it has already started capturing citizens’ comments posted on the White House’s Facebook, Myspace, YouTube and Twitter pages.
Neither the procurement office nor the White House press office responded to questions about the project from CNSNews.com last week and this week.
The National Legal Policy Center, a conservative government watchdog group that discovered the 51-page bid solicitation, was highly critical of the project.
“This is a huge, secretive effort by the White House to capture web material far beyond what is required by the Presidential Records Act, which only requires archiving materials produced by the president and his staff at the Executive Office of the President,” said NLPC chairman Ken Boehm in a statement to CNSNews.com Monday.
The concerns raised by the NLPC come after the White House reversed a policy of encouraging citizens to send messages to flag@whitehouse.gov to report opposition to the health-care reform legislation backed by President Obama after Fox News reported that citizens were getting e-mail messages from the White House promoting the health bill despite having never signed up for messages.
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"Anyone who posts comments on the White House’s Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter pages will have their statements captured and permanently archived by the federal government, according to a plan that the White House is now seeking a contractor to carry out."
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As is required by law. All electronic/internet communications that the White House engages in have to be archived. Contrary to Bush/Cheneyco which conveniently erased tens of thousands of emails and which used a seperate, illegal communications system outside of Governmental systems.
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