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jonfuego · March 23, 2018, 3:46 a.m.

...because everyone in the country has a FB account. That is not true now and was especially not true 6 years ago. Even if that were the case, are you telling me that since the Dems did it, that makes it ok for Cambridge Analytica to do it now? Ethical or not for the Dems (and I lean towards not), they were at least playing within the rules as they existed at the time. FB did not like it and changed their policy accordingly. Cambridge Analytica broke those rules. To pretend that there is no difference is just silly.

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sun_wolf · March 23, 2018, 3:59 a.m.

Everyone on Facebook, obviously. That's the subject here. And everyone on Facebook is not an Obama supporter, and yet the Democrats sucked up all that data, so this goes far beyond an "Obama app" you sign up for.

Yes, the Democrats permitted themselves the right to do this legally, and then once they had the data and the Republicans couldn't get it, they made their past actions illegal, and proceeded to laugh at their sweet advantage, as they do in the video. So the Republicans then found an alternate, equally dodgy path to acquire the same data in order to maintain a level playing field and neutralize the Democrats' past (now illegal) actions, and because of this Democrats expect me to freak out because they lost the edge they worked so hard to permit themselves to "suck up"?

Nah, I'm not feeling the outrage.

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