[Newsbot]

Title: Government science goes rogue on Twitter
Category: Uncle Sam
Posted By: Robair
Date: 2017-01-26 11:55:21

[Robair]

Stickin' it to the man!
This act of defiance makes these scientist geeks more rock and roll than most modern musicians.

[DrCaleb]

[martin14]

Sorry, if those people disagree with the government that hired them, they should leave.

If they get found out, they should be immediately terminated.


Your moral relativism is not nice.

[DrCaleb]

martin14 martin14:

Your moral relativism is not nice.

Neither is yours when you advocate for your rights to be respected, but not someone elses' .

They might be government employees, but what they do as private citizens is their own business.

[BartSimpson]

There's little proof that these accounts are actually being created by anyone working for the government.

Even if some of them are it stands to reason that some of them are just sock puppet accounts being run by agitators.

FYI: That game can work both ways and in Canada, too.

[Tricks]

martin14 martin14:

Sorry, if those people disagree with the government that hired them, they should leave.

If they get found out, they should be immediately terminated.


Your moral relativism is not nice.

Wow.

I guess you're cool with draft dodgers and people who go AWOL right? If they disagree they're leaving.

[Robair]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

There's little proof that these accounts are actually being created by anyone working for the government.

Even if some of them are it stands to reason that some of them are just sock puppet accounts being run by agitators.

FYI: That game can work both ways and in Canada, too.

We just nicely got rid of a Prime Minister that was into muzzling scientists.

I'm impressed with the alt reaction to censorship, wish we'd had something similar up here.

[DrCaleb]

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[BartSimpson]

Robair Robair:

I'm impressed with the alt reaction to censorship, wish we'd had something similar up here.

You do.

[ShepherdsDog]

Now now....the Trumpets are just using alternative science facts.

[Tricks]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Robair Robair:

I'm impressed with the alt reaction to censorship, wish we'd had something similar up here.

You do.

You mean the guy that claimed he had a PhD in Climatology, was called out by another professor, tried to sue the guy only to admit his PhD is in geography and withdrew the lawsuit?

What are his credentials exactly to make the claim that CO2 isn't a pollutant?

[BartSimpson]

Tricks Tricks:

What are his credentials exactly to make the claim that CO2 isn't a pollutant?

The same as his credentials for saying that water isn't a pollutant.

[Tricks]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Tricks Tricks:

What are his credentials exactly to make the claim that CO2 isn't a pollutant?

The same as his credentials for saying that water isn't a pollutant.

So that's none.

Just making sure.

[N_Fiddledog]

There seems to be more on the story in the OP:

Rogue U.S. government tweeters could be prosecuted as hackers

$1:

WASHINGTON - Who are the federal government's rogue tweeters, using official agency social media accounts to poke President Donald Trump? Are these acts of civil disobedience, or federal crimes?

The online campaign began with unauthorized tweets - on subjects such as climate change inconsistent with Trump's campaign statements and policies - that have been mostly deleted from official agency accounts. It shifted tactics Thursday as at least 40 new but unofficial "alternative" accounts for federal agencies began spreading across Twitter. It wasn't clear how many unofficial accounts were run by government employees, but there were early indications that at least some were created by federal workers using their work email addresses - and that may have exposed their identities.

The administration said the earlier Twitter actions involved tweets by unauthorized users - at least one was a former employee - who still had passwords for the agency accounts, including one case involving the account for the Redwoods National Park in California. Legal experts said the Justice Department could prosecute such tweeters under federal hacking laws, but the FBI so far was not involved.

"An unauthorized user had an old password in the San Francisco office, went in and started retweeting inappropriate things that were in violation of their policy," White House spokesman Sean Spicer said. Separately, the National Park Service said tweets published earlier this week on the account of the Badlands National Park in South Dakota were posted by a former employee not authorized to use the account.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/rogue-u- ... -1.3259466