This idea is interesting and also surprisingly refreshing. In a sense, individuals, children, and even parents are now actively teaching and practicing strategies to avoid encounters with strangers. If a stranger walks up to you and starts talking many people will not even take an ear bud out and just continue walking. Whether this is due to fear or rudeness, people are seemingly much more reserved in public spheres today.

I find is rather interesting that political campaign experience is not at all considered for these positions. There is a clear motive and idea that these individuals are hired for their skills and experience with digital media and influencing followers and voters. Many of the strategies are completely revolutionary in the political spectrum and this team is reflective of that.

Substituting the term "Government of Canada" to Harper Government is interesting as this is a clear attempt of branding. Branding creates an identity in which others can associate with and often in politics falls around the leader, in this case Stephen Harper. This is a very bold move from the conservative government but the reason behind it seems like the risk is worth the reward.

This was what I was thinking while reading this. Surely Facebook is not the only platform in which has high volumes of active users with personal data, what other corporations are selling our data and who are they selling it to? The collection and organization of specific demographics in order to package them and sell to advertising and marketing agencies is a mysterious practice. As a consumer we do not know what is really happening.

I find this statement really interesting as I wonder how much of the public understand why our dairy prices are relatively higher. Does the public understand that the idea of consumers paying higher prices is directly going towards helping dairy farmers stabilize their own income? This affects low income families the most as they are paying for a premium to help protect dairy farmers profits. Do we really need to be helping these farmers? The average Canadian household income is $69,100 compared to an average dairy farming household income of $180,400. This is a very interesting dilemma in my opinion.

I find this statement interesting because it is true to an extent. For platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and more, you may say and share what you want but there are regulations. If the shared content does not uphold the values of the platform there could be push back. For example on Twitter, during the elections in the United States, discourse regarding support and criticisms of certain political groups were deleted. People were experiencing their tweets being deleted and or accounts being suspended. This is interesting as although any individual can share, if the content does not fall in line with certain aspects it may be flagged and removed.

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