[SIGCIS-Members] QU Spamtrap [Score:4.0] Email "inventor" claimant to run for U.S. Senate -- alternative facts about technology and democracy collide

[Subramanian, Ramesh Prof.]

Why am I not surprised? This dude will stop at nothing to keep the money flowing, it seems.


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Ramesh Subramanian, Ph.D.
Gabriel Ferrucci Professor of Computer Information Systems
Quinnipiac University
Hamden, CT 06518.
Phone: 203-582-5276
Email:rameshs at quinnipiac.edu
Web: https://www.qu.edu/student-resources/directory/staff.23345.html
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Fellow, Yale Law School - Information Society Project
New Haven, CT 06511
Email: ramesh.subramanian at yale.edu
Web: https://www.law.yale.edu/ramesh-subramanian
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Subject: QU Spamtrap [Score:4.0] [SIGCIS-Members] Email "inventor" claimant to run for U.S. Senate -- alternative facts about technology and democracy collide

Continuing with the ongoing saga of V. A. Shiva and his claims regarding the invention of e-mail, that gentleman has just announced his candidacy for the United States Senate.

https://twitter.com/va_shiva/status/835420061993218048<https://websitecheck.quinnipiac.edu/canit/urlproxy.php?_q=aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS92YV9zaGl2YS9zdGF0dXMvODM1NDIwMDYxOTkzMjE4MDQ4&_r=cXVpbm5pcGlhYy1lZHU%3D&_s=cnN1YnJhbWFuaWFu>

As several SIGCIS contributors noted earlier this month, this nicely parallels the upcoming SHOT themes of technology and democracy. "Alternate facts" about the history of technology will play a major public element of this campaign next year.

--Andrew