CH4: Trumps plan to silence 4M black voters

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Just now, gabeoz said:

Its a list of 200M Americans that they created in 2016. From what was shown it looks like it keeps track of their names, age, race, political ideology, which candidate they supported and their dedication to said candidate, media awareness, what kind of political philosophy they have (example; freethinkder) and which voters they were trying to target to stop from voting.

How can u stop someone from voting?

[gabeoz 7,915]

7 minutes ago, KanyeWest said:

How can u stop someone from voting?

This reply here from the first page lays out how voter suppression tactics are often used:

45 minutes ago, Luc said:

Micro-targeting in this case. So yes, ads specifically targeted to those people to make them less likely to vote, e.g. by painting HRC as racist. But voter suppression also happens in other ways by Republicans, 'more radically': district borders are desigbed to make black votes (or Democratic votes more generally) spread out such that Republicans win (for instance) 9 seats with 55%-45% while Democrats win 2 seats with 90%-10%. Voting offices are removed and/or understaffed in areas with a lot of black people, leading to lines of sometimes 3 hours and over. Different unclear administrative identification steps are continuously added to vote and often times you've done them wrong even if you followed all the unnecessary bureaucratic steps, these are usually targeted at suppressing black turn-out as well. It's not just Trump who is racist, the entire GOP is.

 

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1 minute ago, gabeoz said:

This reply here from the first page lays out how voter suppression tactics are often used:

 

But thats just ads targetting them i

[Nicklev 1,086]

If this 'person' is capable to build a wall to stop immigration I think he would do more than sending ads to his targets. Oh USA! I can relate having a psychopath in the power. So sad.

[Nicklev 1,086]

People need to watch the Cambridge Analityca documentary on NETFLIX

[gabeoz 7,915]

11 minutes ago, KanyeWest said:

But thats just ads targetting them i

Targeted ads that serve as catalysts for disinformation campaigns are one of the biggest forms of voter suppression out there because they are effective and can deter people from voting.

 

4 minutes ago, Nicklev said:

If this 'person' is capable to build a wall to stop immigration I think he would do more than sending ads to his targets. Oh USA! I can relate having a psychopath in the power. So sad.

You're right, his current position gives him more power than just ads, but this was from 2016 before he was president. 

[Curunir 7,510]

I'm sorry but how is it possible (or even legal) to have that information on 200 MILLION people?

If it was the NSA or CIA I'd get it, but this is a campaign 

The US never ceases to amaze me.

[gabeoz 7,915]

The official video that aired on Channel 4 is on youtube now

 

 

[Morphine Prince 109,729]

Insane 

[Karl 3,575]

Surely that violates some kind of privacy rights?

[gabeoz 7,915]

4 minutes ago, Karl said:

Surely that violates some kind of privacy rights?

Much of the data was gathered by Cambridge Analytica, which we know how that turned out

[gabeoz 7,915]

After watching the full video, the list that they made seems even more disturbing. They had their name, address, race, age, job, income, political ideology, candidate support, personality type, the likelihood of whether you would own a dog, a gun, or if youre likely to get married and/or have a baby for 200 million Americans. And how they disproportionally targeted/listed black Americans, and other minorities as "deterrence" and goes against the Trump's campaign own promise that they didnt target specific racial groups during the 2016 election.