Florida police raid home of former state Covid-19 data scientist

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This is pure intimidation. DeSantis cut back testing and played with numbers leading up to the election. Trying to get away with there is no problem here folks. He may be afraid of being held liable by a new administration in Washington. If some of these people do not end up in jail this country is finished.

I wish I could say I'm gonna laugh when we find out that the anti-socialist stuff targeting Latinx persons came from some Florida government service.
 
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Pohemi

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Why do you put data scientist in quotes?
It's the obvious start of his personal misinformation campaign on the story. Duh.

Isn't it ironic that the crowd constantly crying about their freedoms being infringed constantly supports authoritarian over reach?
Hypocritical assclowns. Go figure.

Care to explain what this "research" you claim to have done, actually showed?
When he claims, "research", it actually just means his retarded opinions based on rwnj blog fakenews.

I don't know all the details...
You don't know ANY factual details, you only THINK you know what you want to believe.

But anyhow, the person here isn't black, so we don't have to talk about this from an excessive police force perspective - only when it peddles your typical racist narrative do we need to mention that.
And you wrap it up with an expectedly retarded clown post. Holy fuck, you are a dishonest piece of shit.
 
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@s0me0nesmind1 appears it was a text message but thru some state machine thingy.

Noob didn’t use a vpn which sounds sloppy for a data scientist
According to the affidavit by an investigator with the department, an unauthorized individual illegally accessed a state government emergency management system to send a group text message to government officials last month urging them to speak out about the coronavirus crisis.
"It's time to speak up before another 17,000 people are dead," the message said, according to the affidavit. "You know this is wrong. You don't have to be part of this. Be a hero. Speak out before it's too late."
Officials traced the message, which was sent on the afternoon of November 10 to about 1,750 recipients, to an IP address connected to Jones' house, the investigator wrote in the affidavit.

However there’s this maybe it is a setup?
Jones told CNN's Chris Cuomo on Monday night that she didn't send the message.
"I'm not a hacker," Jones said. She added that the language in the message that authorities said was sent was "not the way I talk," and contained errors she would not make.
"The number of deaths that the person used wasn't even right," Jones said. "They were actually under by about 430 deaths. I would never round down 430 deaths."
 

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Perknose

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I don't know all the details...
DO go on. We all know you will!

But anyhow, the person here isn't black, so we don't have to talk about this from an excessive police force perspective - only when it peddles your typical racist narrative do we need to mention that.
I have some qualms about your accusation here . . . but since you're an acknowledged expert on racist narratives, I will bow to your long and deep experience with them.
 
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FFS, that is your response to the news? Sad. Sad that anyone would actually support government thuggery and abuse of power for corrupt intent.

A scientist spoke!? THE CRIME! THE HUMANITY!!!!

Did you miss the part where it said... GOVERNMENT Server?

Hell, we can't even get Democrats to support conservatives having the right to speak their thoughts on social media - and you find having access to a private government server with authentication credentials to be a free speech issue? You're a little nutty there, fella.
 
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hal2kilo

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People in authority abusing power. Everything we've seen from DeSantis since the pandemic started is that hes a real piece of work.
Exposing Desantis, is really close to selling heroin so, you really got to take this crime very seriously. Where's her go fund me site?
 
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Did you miss the part where it said... GOVERNMENT Server?

Hell, we can't even get Democrats to support conservatives having the right to speak their thoughts on social media - and you find having access to a private government server with authentication credentials to be a free speech issue? You're a little nutty there, fella.

sounds more like a PAM (Promotional Alert Machine) these were big in telecom in the early 00’s. Thought was text alerts could be sent to people in a certain area about sales or special events. We sort of see them today as text alerts from work regarding weather or whatever.
Sort of a server but not really. These are just dumb messaging machines absolutely not a critical piece of equipment.
I am making an educated guess and I could be wrong. Also this isn’t saying there shouldn’t be consequences for messing with a machine like I described. Really I am saying law enforcement didn’t need to be involved in this case as it is presented.
Change the fucking password on the machine and take her to court if the state feels it was damaged by her actions.
 
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cytg111

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Did you miss the part where it said... GOVERNMENT Server?

Hell, we can't even get Democrats to support conservatives having the right to speak their thoughts on social media - and you find having access to a private government server with authentication credentials to be a free speech issue? You're a little nutty there, fella.
Is social media government run?
What does freedom of speech protect you from?
How long does it take to get banned from Parler when you post “Hillary actually isnt that bad”?
Shut the fuck up already?
 

hal2kilo

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Is social media government run?
What does freedom of speech protect you from?
How long does it take to get banned from Parler when you post “Hillary actually isnt that bad”?
Shut the fuck up already?
Thank you. :D
 
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Hell, we can't even get Democrats to support conservatives having the right to speak their thoughts on social media - and you find having access to a private government server with authentication credentials to be a free speech issue? You're a little nutty there, fella.

I don't get what you are trying to say, there.

I mean, for decades in my country, there have been occasional noises made by the left floating the idea that the overwhelmingly right-wing print-media should be obliged to give 'right of reply' to that left. For example, the suggestion that the relentlessly-conservative Murdoch-press should be obligated to carry responses from the likes of trade-union leaders or Labour politicians after the papers attacked them, say.

At no point did 'conservatives' ever support that idea. Hell, I was never very keen on it myself. There are very obvious problems with the proposal.

But are you saying that privately-owned media outlets should be obligated by the state, to carry opinions of those they, or much of their target market, strongly disagree with? That seems like a dramatic turn-around for a conservative free-marketeer.

Or are you just complaining about people daring to disagree with conservative opinions on social media? E.g. conservatives being forcefully argued against on a forum like this one. That seems to be a common misrepresentation of what 'free speech' means, so maybe that's your point?

The truth is I feel very mixed feelings about that, to be honest. I can't square the circle - on the one hand right-wing posters on here regularly annoy the heck out of me...yet at the same time I absolutely think this forum would be really, really boring if they all quit. I can only conclude from that, that there's part of me that quite likes getting riled-up and aggravated.
 

Pohemi

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At no point did 'conservatives' ever support that idea. Hell, I was never very keen on it myself. There are very obvious problems with the proposal.

But are you saying that privately-owned media outlets should be obligated by the state, to carry opinions of those they, or much of their target market, strongly disagree with? That seems like a dramatic turn-around for a conservative free-marketeer.

Or are you just complaining about people daring to disagree with conservative opinions on social media? E.g. conservatives being forcefully argued against on a forum like this one. That seems to be a common misrepresentation of what 'free speech' means, so maybe that's your point?
His notion of "freedom of speech" is lying or claiming whatever he feels like pulling out of his ass at the moment, and if you call him out on it or tell him to stfu, well yerjustafascistnow ...

His idea of free speech only applies to lying conservatives and right-wingers. He's more than keen on suppressing libruhls, dems, anyone he doesn't agree with. It's another example of his hypocrisy and projection.

@s0me0nesAfuckingMoron
 

emperus

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What is nuts is that Desantis went to Yale and Harvard Law School. He is just a cynical MFer.
 
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allisolm

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You might want to do some more research into this "data scientist" and why police raided her home.

This data scientist created and maintained the FL Covid dashboard, which was lauded nationally for its transparency until, according to her, she was asked to manually change data to favor the reopening plan. She refused and was fired. After she was gone, the site used different methods of reporting covid statistics and has since changed the way it reports things several times.

Whether she did or did not do what she is currently accused of I do not know. I do believe she got a raw deal with the firing and a really good source of covid information for FL folks was ruined in the process.
 
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Fired for telling the truth. It was obvious that DeSantis had Covid data fudged just a bit(LOL) to help Trump's reopening plans. DeSantis is a Trump wannabe. If they continue to cause trouble sick the DOJ or FDLE on them, have them thrown in jail. That will teach those truth loving commies.