Melodi
Disaster Cat
I am not a scientist but I am a "fen" (science fiction/fantasy geek) and there are a lot of science types in my life. I find it interesting that NASA employees are now doing this even though as far as I know they are not under gag order and Trump even mentioned going into space as important (NASA suffered a great deal from Obama administration silliness) but even these scientists don't like seeing scientists under gag orders.
Honestly while I understand his intent, I think Trump blew it on the Twitter account thing and if he's smart he will just ignore this "protest" and it will go away - if he fights it - he's going to tweak off even more geeks and find out they will get what they consider to be actual science information out one way or another.
However, I think anyone is stupid who things they can't be found out - of course they can; but as long as they do it on their own time (not on the job) and don't release government secrets actually firing an employee over this would not only be very difficult (a court case the government would almost certainly lose) but again just attract even more comments and distractions.
Oh and I agree most of the climate change data has been tweaked but banning it rather than refuting it with actual data - well its probably not going to bring the change that is desired - now bring on the facts and often it will.
This started with the Forest Service, then EPA and now NASA...
NASA launches unofficial Twitter account in defiance of Donald Trump
By Bill Palmer | January 25, 2017 | 0
You can count NASA as the third federal agency in the past twenty-four hours to defy Donald Trump by launching unofficial non-government Twitter accounts which Trump can’t control or sensor. First it was the National Park Service, which went rogue on Twitter after Trump forced deletions of factual tweets he didn’t like. Then the EPA went rogue earlier today. And now NASA has launched its own rogue Twitter account in order to make sure its truths are heard against Trump’s will.
If only Trump would leave earth.
The rogue Twitter account in question, which is literally called @RogueNASA, has only existed for five hours and has already gained a significant popular following. It started off by tweeting “We cannot allow Mr. Trump to silence the scientific community. We need peer-reviewed, evidence-based research MORE THAN EVER now,” while adding “How sad is it that government employees have to create rogue Twitter accounts just to communicate FACTS to the American public?” The account has since been tweeting the kinds of scientific facts and climate change data which Trump is most likely to want censored — and there’s not a thing he can do about it.
Because the identities of the NASA employees running @RogueNASA Twitter account are unknown, there is no way for Donald Trump to discipline them or fire them over it. And he can’t get the account forcibly shut down, because the NASA employees aren’t doing anything that would violate Twitter’s terms of service. In other words, Trump’s Twitter shenanigans have officially backfired.
The rogue NASA account has also been retweeting climate change data originally tweeted by Congressman Mark Takano, who has stated that he’s doing so specifically because Trump is trying to keep the data quashed. If you want to follow the unofficial NASA Twitter account, which now has more than forty thousand followers, you can find it here.
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Honestly while I understand his intent, I think Trump blew it on the Twitter account thing and if he's smart he will just ignore this "protest" and it will go away - if he fights it - he's going to tweak off even more geeks and find out they will get what they consider to be actual science information out one way or another.
However, I think anyone is stupid who things they can't be found out - of course they can; but as long as they do it on their own time (not on the job) and don't release government secrets actually firing an employee over this would not only be very difficult (a court case the government would almost certainly lose) but again just attract even more comments and distractions.
Oh and I agree most of the climate change data has been tweaked but banning it rather than refuting it with actual data - well its probably not going to bring the change that is desired - now bring on the facts and often it will.
This started with the Forest Service, then EPA and now NASA...
NASA launches unofficial Twitter account in defiance of Donald Trump
By Bill Palmer | January 25, 2017 | 0
You can count NASA as the third federal agency in the past twenty-four hours to defy Donald Trump by launching unofficial non-government Twitter accounts which Trump can’t control or sensor. First it was the National Park Service, which went rogue on Twitter after Trump forced deletions of factual tweets he didn’t like. Then the EPA went rogue earlier today. And now NASA has launched its own rogue Twitter account in order to make sure its truths are heard against Trump’s will.
If only Trump would leave earth.
The rogue Twitter account in question, which is literally called @RogueNASA, has only existed for five hours and has already gained a significant popular following. It started off by tweeting “We cannot allow Mr. Trump to silence the scientific community. We need peer-reviewed, evidence-based research MORE THAN EVER now,” while adding “How sad is it that government employees have to create rogue Twitter accounts just to communicate FACTS to the American public?” The account has since been tweeting the kinds of scientific facts and climate change data which Trump is most likely to want censored — and there’s not a thing he can do about it.
Because the identities of the NASA employees running @RogueNASA Twitter account are unknown, there is no way for Donald Trump to discipline them or fire them over it. And he can’t get the account forcibly shut down, because the NASA employees aren’t doing anything that would violate Twitter’s terms of service. In other words, Trump’s Twitter shenanigans have officially backfired.
The rogue NASA account has also been retweeting climate change data originally tweeted by Congressman Mark Takano, who has stated that he’s doing so specifically because Trump is trying to keep the data quashed. If you want to follow the unofficial NASA Twitter account, which now has more than forty thousand followers, you can find it here.
If you appreciate the investigative reporting of Palmer Report, consider making a contribution:
Bill Palmer
Bill Palmer is the founder and publisher of the political news site Daily News Bin
http://www.dailynewsbin.com