Author: mediahitman

By Vicki Meyer (Contact) To be delivered to: Commission on Presidential Debates and the major TV networks Have unbiased fact checkers at the presidential and vice presidential debates so that voters can base their decisions on facts rather than rhetoric. Voters must know what is true before they can make decisions that are in their own best interest and that of our country. It would be best if the fact checking is done during the commercials and then before the next round of debates, the fact-checkers’ findings could be read without comment. This would be much more powerful than reading…

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This experiment takes 4 or 5 people to perform. 5 works better. It will work much better if the “subject” is a young person, say, 12 to 21 years old or so. Older people find this very difficult to grasp, because their minds are usually “closed” to this type of information and knowledge. If you are able to levitate an older person, so much the better!

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By Jay Stanley The ACLU of Michigan recently put out an interesting report on surveillance cameras. Like other ACLU reports on cameras (such as those by our affiliates in Illinois and Northern California, and the materials on our national site) it summarizes the policy arguments against cameras. But it also focuses on a uniquely disturbing application of surveillance cameras: their deployment in residential neighborhoods.

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By David Rosen The digital tracking and surveillance of school-aged kids has been growing. Much attention has been given to the phenomenon of corporate tracking of kids’ online activities, activities that violate the Children’s Online Privacy  Protection Act  (COPPA).  The law, originally adopted in 1998, requires Web sites aimed at kids to get parental consent before gathering information about those users who are under 13 years.

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