Barack Obama was never big on civil liberties. From The People’s Voice at thepeoplesvoice.tv:
Former President Barack Hussein Obama has called for “digital fingerprints” to be mandatory to help law enforcement agencies target and arrest users who read and share “non-mainstream news” online.
In a new interview, Obama said the development of new tracking technology could help identify users who spread “fake news” online.
Tracking those users and punishing them would help bolster mainstream news outlets on the internet, Obama argues.
Slaynews.com reports: Obama sat down with his former White House senior adviser David Axelrod for a conversation on the latter’s podcast, “The Axe Files,” on CNN Audio.
During the interview, Axelrod noted he’s seen “misinformation, disinformation, [and] deepfakes” targeting Obama.
“As I’ve told people, because I was the first digital president when I left office, I was probably the most recorded filmed photographed human in history, which is kind of a weird thing,” responded Obama.
“But just the odds are that I was.
“As a consequence, there’s a lot of raw material there.”
Obama added that the deepfakes — digitally manipulated images, audio, or video that appear almost legitimate — started with a version of him dancing, “saying dirty limericks,” or similar kinds of activity.
“That technology’s here now,” continued Obama.
Of course Weather Underground Barry did…a few blocks from the white house. (honk!)
I’m enjoying the innernets before they make it so you have to identify yourself with thumb reader or facial recognition.
Too much freethink and wakey wakey going on.