{"id":178526,"date":"2018-11-04T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/04\/and-now-advertisers-are-aiding-terrorists\/"},"modified":"2018-11-04T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T00:47:00","slug":"and-now-advertisers-are-aiding-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/04\/and-now-advertisers-are-aiding-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"And Now Advertisers are Aiding Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"
Yes, our friends who want to use cell phone tracking to sell us shoes have been selling their services to anti abortion operatives<\/a>:<\/div>\n

Last year, an enterprising advertising executive based in Boston, Massachusetts, had an idea: Instead of using his sophisticated mobile surveillance techniques to figure out which consumers might be interested in buying shoes, cars, or any of the other products typically advertised online, what if he used the same technology to figure out which women were potentially contemplating abortion, and send them ads on behalf of anti-choice organizations? <\/p>\n

The executive\u2014John Flynn, CEO of Copley Advertising\u2014set to work. He put together PowerPoint presentations touting his capabilities, and sent them to groups he thought would be interested in reaching \u201cabortion-minded women,\u201d to use anti-choice parlance. <\/p>\n

Before long, he\u2019d been hired by RealOptions, a network of crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) in Northern California, as well as by the evangelical adoption agency Bethany Christian Services. <\/p>\n

Flynn\u2019s endeavors quickly won him attention in the anti-choice world. He was invited to speak at the Family Research Council\u2019s ProLifeCon Digital Action Summit in January this year, and he got a few write-ups in anti-choice press.<\/p>\n

In an interview<\/a> with Live Action News<\/i>\u2014the website for Live Action, the group run by anti-choice activist Lila Rose that is responsible for bogus attack videos<\/a> against Planned Parenthood\u2014Flynn gave some details about his strategy. He sends advertisements for his clients to women\u2019s smartphones while they are sitting in Planned Parenthood clinics, using a technology known as \u201cmobile geo-fencing.\u201d He also planned to ping women at methadone clinics and other abortion facilities. His program for Bethany covered five cities: Columbus, Ohio; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Richmond, Virginia; St. Louis, Missouri; and New York City. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very excited to bring our mobile marketing capabilities to the pro-life community,\u201d Flynn told Live Action News<\/i>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is why the self-described “disrupters” in the tech industry need to be kept under a tight regulatory leash.<\/p>\n

If you don’t find this completely terrifying, you have not been paying attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, our friends who want to use cell phone tracking to sell us shoes have been selling their services to anti abortion operatives: Last year, an enterprising advertising executive based in Boston, Massachusetts, had an idea: Instead of using his sophisticated mobile surveillance techniques to figure out which consumers might be interested in buying shoes, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[551,608,368,364,374,382],"class_list":["post-178526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-abortion","tag-advertising","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-politics","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}