I have yet to see the activities of the typically employed Paid Troll Swarm shooting down each and every comment making mild criticism of HRC on Facebook (or here).

But no doubt that is coming...

The business world is still surprisingly peppered with Blackberrys. Less so today than just two years ago (when they still seemed old-fashioned), but there are a few clinging to life.

"Deputy CTO" has a terrible ring to it. Imagining khakis, a phone holster, and a badge—maybe a 4 series... convertible?

Is there an "opt-out" for all this bullshit if I promise to vote for whomever the Democratic candidate is?

Well... we know she has the technical skills to wipe a server.

Look at her pokerfacing so hard in that kicky hat. Who does she think she is, the queen of England? Oh, wait.

Obviously she's going to use her NSA connections to individually blackmail every American into voting for her. "Greetings, Mr. Ted Smith of 123 Elm Street, Anytown, USA: We're excited that you have expressed an interest in voting for Martin O'Malley as a 'protest vote' in next month's primary. However, you might wish to reconsider that vote, unless you'd like the contents of this phone call to a Ms. Sparkles DuZhour, an employee of Drag Escorts, to be made public."

Hillary has been defeated once in a primary. No way she's letting THAT happen again. The gloves are off!

Baume on the Koch brothers- evil men trying to take over the world through data compilation on citizens.

Baume on Mrs Clinton- yeah, keeping files on voters is a little creepy but what are ya gonna do? That's just the world in which we live.

Separated by time and reflection, no doubt? The man thought about it and came to a different conclusion having nothing at all to do with Clinton's ideology? Nah. On the same morning the fool writes two editorials taking both sides. One view for those he irrationally, comically even, fears amd slanders. One for someone he mostly agrees with and would vote for.

Or, shorter, Baume is a cowardly bully AND a hypocrite.

i say i want to make love to to Hilary and it gets erased censored, and yet if you do a search on Slog for "Michelle Obama's butt" there are numerous examples of Sloggers praising her butt.
Is talking about a woman's butt the classy thing I should have done?

@8 well said

@8 Notice that Baume feels threatened by two private citizens donating to political causes. He has no problem with a corrupt, endlessly entitled crybaby public employee union trying to drive Walker from office. My favorite story is the prosecutor who trumped up charges against Walker because his union rep wife kept weeping at the dinner table. How'd that go?

@8:

Political campaigns and organizations have been maintaining files on voters since such forms of record-keeping came into existence; this is simply a newer, more sophisticated version of the same. Clinton is simply following in the footsteps of Obama's robust online GOTV and mobilization program, embracing it, and presumably building on it. And given the growing number of younger voters, the vast majority of whom spend a good deal of their waking hours online, it's a highly effective, not to mention comparatively cheaper means of communicating with them than old-fashioned snail-mail or phone banks, both of which the GOP, with its increasingly geriatric - not to mention far more computer illiterate - base, will have to continue to expend significant sums on utilizing.

@ 8, you're the expert on bullying, so I guess you would know.

Here's the story. Hilarious.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-…

For doing work, Blackberries are great. Why would she learn a new phone? She has better things to do with her time.

I figure she's going to need her own operating system for her mail server and probably another mobile OS for that blackberry. The HillPhone. Unhackable by Russians or Buzzfeed.

@ 14, citing the Daily Mail is a trashy tabloid. Not clicking that link.

@12

I'm not fond of online databases compiling public records. I'm even less fond of people with whom I do business selling my information. Vestigial reaction to a too young reading of 1984. But it's legal because they are public records or part of a customer/vendor agreement.

Aware as I am about younger peoples tolerance for entire lack of privacy (though you'll scream about Roe til your voices go hoarse) I can't agree with them/you about how it's inevitable. These are government or consumer agencies answerable to constituents or customers. Enough people demand basic privacy and that's what you're going to get. Let them use a tool to their advantage however that impacts you, and they'll do that, too.
It's not the morality or legality of it I'm noting. It's Baume's hypocrisy in treating two entities doing so for exactly the same reason differently. Based solely on his agreement with one of them.

@18:

LOOK, THERE! EVIL PURE AND SIMPLE!

(And just WTF pray-tell does "Roe" have to do with government surveillance?)

@20
Aren't Bill and Hillary essentially a pair of obscenely wealthy private citizens attempting to influence the outcome of an election for their own selfish ends?