Fuck the administration and fuck the sociopath writing executive orders without thinking them through or giving a clear message about how to enforce them. Fuck all the panicking immigration workers and fuck everything that stopped this guy going straight to a liberal press and getting his story out there fast enough to get an exception granted.
Here's the full text of the damn thing.
It has very specific language written into it for declaring exceptions on a case by case basis, putting the administration in a power-high position of judgement over the course of individuals' lives, according to whatever political or religious hot-buttons they care to enable. Already specifically to favour Christians.
Then there's
this article.
The clear path of data through Cambridge Analytics which is partially responsible for Trump's out-of-left-field win. Basically a researcher developed an algorithm that could predict big-5 personality traits based on a user's likes on Facebook. With 150 likes, the algorithm was more accurate in prediction than a person's parents. With 300 likes it was more accurate than a person's spouse.
The researcher was approached by Facebook with a lawsuit and a job offer in the same day. Which he turned down, because he has a conscience, unlike the folks at Cambridge Analytics and its convoluted parent corporate structure, who reproduced his method and hired it out to Trump's campaign as well as other significant elections around the world. They have a personality profile of just about every adult in the United States, broken down by address and phone number. It enabled, for example, the door-to-door campaigners to use an app to know the personality profiles of the adults who lived in a house before they walked up to the door, and they had instructions to tailor their message accordingly. It let them save time by targetting only still-undecided Republican voters. Facebook news feeds were also tailored with this data to target specific profiles of people with specific messages.
And because it was a rip of the researcher's method, not directly working with Facebook likes (which are now allowed to be private), it uses a lot of other bought data and people who don't have or use Facebook are not exempt. Facebook is just one example demonstration that such tactics work.
