Friday, August 7, 2009

Snopes.com is biased?

Apparently it is. I've been keeping up with the news lately and the Cash for Clunkers program. Fox news has been talking about how there was a privacy agreement on the dealership's part of the website saying that if a dealer agreed to using their system then their computer was considered federal property and everything on the computer was considered federal property.

Here's Snopes's article about the "myth" Fox has been spreading: http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/clunkers.asp

First, Snopes says that there WAS a privacy agreement on the dealer's side of the website that said that any computers agreeing to use the website were considered federal government property and anything on the computer is federal government property while logged into the system. So Snopes admits this agreement was on there, an agreement that breaches the privacy and rights of dealers. Snopes tries to write off this agreement as being "poorly-worded."

Do they think that we're that dumb that we would gobble that up and not question the privacy agreement anymore?

Second, Snopes says that Glenn Beck from Fox news warns viewers while doing a segment about Cash for Clunker's privacy agreement not to complete an application from their own computers. Snopes tries to spin this to make it sound like Glenn Beck said that the agreement was on the consumer and dealer sides of the website. Snopes tries to make Glenn Beck sound like he's spreading false alarm and lies.

Here's the video of the segment Glenn Beck did about the Cash for Clunkers privacy agreement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWs12ccbOiE

You don't have to watch the first 20 seconds to see that Glenn Beck warns for viewers not to get on the dealer side of the website and complete an application. He doesn't warn people about the consumer side of the site. Just the dealer side. Yet Snopes is lying and saying he was.

Either Snopes is biased or they are not as thorough in their investigations as people think.

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