As Twitchy already pointed out, the Obama administration either has a terrible sense of timing or just enjoys trolling the rest of us. On the same day the nation is learning that the National Security Agency and FBI have been tapping directly into the central servers of Microsoft, Apple, Google, YouTube, Facebook and other Internet companies, the NRA NSA decided to advertise for a “digital exploitation specialist.”
President Obama has, not surprisingly, been silent on the revelations today (perhaps he’ll read about it in the paper tomorrow), but the White House did choose today to push for high-speed Internet access for every student in the nation, so that America’s public schools could at last compete with … Starbucks?
And this is when timed tweets go wrong: RT @whitehouse: RT if you agree: Every student in America deserves access to high-speed internet …
— Aram Zucker-Scharff (@Chronotope) June 7, 2013
RT if you agree: Every student in America deserves access to high-speed internet at school: http://t.co/roPeyZ54LM, pic.twitter.com/FIPE9xnVYi
— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) June 7, 2013
That’s a cute photo for sure, but there’s no reason in 2013 the president should have to visit your school in person to see what’s on your laptop screen.
Really? Now? #PRISM MT @whitehouse: RT if you agree: Every student in America deserves access to high-speed internet at school.
— Bob Owens (@bob_owens) June 7, 2013
https://twitter.com/Neal_Dewing/status/342804324474302464
ITS A TRAP!! RT @whitehouse: RT if you agree: Every student in America deserves access to high-speed internet at school
— Jamie Kilstein (@jamiekilstein) June 7, 2013
https://twitter.com/FigDrewton/status/342805127759032322
Improves 'oversight'. MT @whitehouse Every student in America deserves access to high-speed internet at school."
— Jonathan Britt (@kmets25) June 7, 2013
WONDER WHY YOU'D WANT THAT MT @whitehouse Every student in America deserves access to high-speed internet at school http://t.co/9LegVICvuq,
— Brandon Wall (@Walldo) June 7, 2013
So you can monitor them at high-speed, right? MT @whitehouse: Every student in America deserves access to high-speed internet at school.
— TNGOP (@TNGOP) June 7, 2013
Yeah what *are* they posting, hm? RT @whitehouse: RT if you agree: Every student in America deserves access to high-speed internet at school
— Matt Ortega (@MattOrtega) June 7, 2013
So you can spy on them sexting? MT @whitehouse Every student in America deserves access to high-speed internet at school
— Gerard S Harbison (@GerardHarbison) June 7, 2013
Also, anti-goodthink brain monitor chips. MT @whitehouse Every student in America deserves access to high-speed internet at school.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 7, 2013
High-speed Internet access in every school sounds great, but not everyone’s convinced that’s the missing piece of the public education puzzle.
Most of them need to learn to read first. RT @whitehouse: Every student in America deserves access to high-speed internet at school:
— Area Man (@lheal) June 7, 2013
RT if you agree @whitehouse: Every student in America deserves access to an actual education #publicschoolsRfailing #homeschooling
— Linda (@LinNoOne) June 7, 2013
https://twitter.com/JayCaruso/status/342805431128834048
https://twitter.com/Yoshifett_BRB/status/342801149059035136
Editor’s note: We’ve corrected a typo that mistakenly identified the NSA as the NRA.
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