What AARP does NOT want you to know......

Are you an older American?

Are you a member of the American Association of Retired Persons, "AARP"?

Are you middle-to-upper class, computer savvy, or maybe just finally able to take some time off from work and learn how to use that computer?

Do you want to be part of a grand online experiment being run by AARP?

If you answered "yes" to all those questions (the fourth one is a little tricky), then maybe you don't want to read the rest of this article without taking some blodd-pressure medicine!

AARP has been running a criminal-level experiment in its online community .

Look in the sidebar for back-up material, starting with some screen-prints of AARP's own Chief Web Strategist Mike Lee's blog entries from March, 2005, when he announced his plans to subject AARP members to "behavior change" via the Internet.

Here is a link to that current page: Curiouslee.typepad.com/weblog/2005/03

You'll notice the mention of B.J. Fogg, a psychologist at Stanford who has been experimenting on users of Facebook, and who is now starting on users of AARP.org:
BJFogg.com

Now, from 2005 to today, these are men who have been working with AARP's corporation to change the boards from a stodgy old text-dominated model to the "Facebook" style. During the summer of 2008, they are the ones who allowed pornography spammers to briefly control the boards.

Most tech ezines published articles about the fact that the pornography spammers could have been prevented by a very simple choice of not allowing the code to be posted, and most interactive communities routinely block that kind of code.

It is not hard to conclude that AARP had more than the budget of the average small website, and now we see that beyond average, they are running a very expensive psychological experiment.

This is not the type of situation in which the invasion of the porn-spammers could have been accidental.

AARP moderators were seen ignoring complaints for weeks. They allowed it to go on while they watched the community and allowed predators to choose targets. By early October the community was in near full revolt (and this is engineered by the "PEACE" acitvist BJ Fogg's group? how "peaceful" is THAT?) and AARP finally pulled the plug on the porn gang, but not before allowing two brothers to start stealing video and images of some of the other users.

The brothers are Bill Richardson and John Richardson of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. John Richardson is a professor of computer technology at Oklahoma City College. Bill Richardson is a retiree who likes to pose as a tech expert in the AARP boards.

On October 4th, Bill Richardson saw an artist post a question about the preferred format for uploading video. The artist decided not to upload the video after reading AARP's highly exlpoitive Terms of Service more closely. But Bill Richardson decided not only to upload the video, but to use it to harass other people and to present it as his own work.

OK, so maybe poor Professor Richardson has a crazy relative who likes to play in the AARP boards? But if so, why did AARP choose to allow him to do this to the point of sending warnings to the users who protested the horrific harassment they were watching, while not stopping him?

Perhaps Oklahoma City College is also experimenting, watching to see how the people react to this kind of abuse. Certainly, the innocent users the brothers chose to target are exactly the kinds of users the extreme fascist left wing has always been attacking: females and slightly "conservative" people who demand that standards of basic social etiquette be upheld.

What kind of behavior is AARP trying to change in this experiement? It is clear that AARP has decided to convince its users that "copyright" protection is not important, that females have no right to post at all (every female who posts tech or similar is attacked by the Richardson brothers, who have posted variably as "BillRichardson" and "OKjo").

What rights do the members of AARP and their families have to sue AARP for having been forced to become part of a psychological experiment that involved abuse and deception, often against people in their 80's who just learned to use the community boards?