Chapter 1520 A+ Network

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'Come on, Underwood, are you going to waste your time playing vowels? '

'I'd love to play, U! Think I! O! U! Ah! Apologize? No no no, you are very wrong, U...'

The TV was on, and Song Ya raised her hand to watch. The screen was a video of Underwood's debate on CUU in order to promote the passage of the financial reform bill in 2009. Underwood, who was not good at quick-wittedness, was cornered by his opponent , He wanted to interrupt, but he didn't know which brain made a mistake and played the game of finding the vowels of English words in front of the Quanmi TV audience.

His public image is mediocre. He used to hide in the iron ticket area to make use of his strengths and avoid his weaknesses. He rarely appeared in the public eye. He suddenly made a catastrophic performance, which was edited and played by various video experts on the Internet, acting as a long time laughingstock.

But now his voice and smile fell in Song Ya's eyes, and there was only sadness and nostalgia.

"You should go."

Ms. Sloan entered the door to remind.

"Are you still studying Underwood?" Song Ya asked without moving.

This is Sloan's safe house in Washington D.C., which has all kinds of "doomsday items" such as camouflage entrances, password doors, emergency food, generators, etc. It is small, and there are many discs and even old video cassettes piled up around the TV Many things related to Underwood were numbered and marked by Sloan.

Apparently, Sloan didn't deny it either. "That Secret Service agent, Lincoln Barrows, who has pleaded not guilty to this day, insists that he didn't shoot Underwood, which is very strange," she said.

"Don't investigate. Underwood has been dead for a year. If you can independently find out the truth of such a big case as the deputy commander of the United States being shot, then the law enforcement agencies of the United States will have already found out the truth."

Song Ya persuaded her, "If you can't find out, then his behind-the-scenes forces... In short, it is not good for us to be found out that you are investigating in private."

"I don't have that sense of justice, so I just play a puzzle game."

Of course Sloan knew the pros and cons of it, and pouted at the TV, "What did you see?"

"Underwood is not good at campaigning, not good at pleasing the public, we've long since known that."

Song Ya said: "He is ambitious,

A vengeful man with a vengeful heart, and a politician who wants to avoid running for that throne...becoming Deputy Commander first is the only way, like Lyndon Johnson who succeeded JFK. "

"Yes, your good brain has not been emptied by wine and sex."

Sloan praised, "It's a pity, losing Underwood's influence on us is a blow."

"You can't come back to life after death, don't regret it." Song Ya persuaded.

"This year his widow, Clare, wants to inherit his constituency? Run for the House of Representatives? Will you support it?"

"certainly."

"OK...and, I'm going to resign after this job is over, I'm done with this place," Sloan added.

"It's up to you, as long as you are happy. If you return to the business world... help me manage Litman Media? The chairman position is still reserved for you. You are not here, and I have been busy for the past four years."

Song Ya replied. In 2008, Houghton Mifflin Publishing, a subsidiary of Littman Media, made a market value of 10 billion through several major mergers and acquisitions in the education and publishing industry before 2008. Unfortunately, now only one-third of the peak is left. Fortunately, the OpenDiary website has undergone a smooth transformation under his own command, which has more than made up for the loss of the publishing industry.

"busy?"

Sloan expressed his disbelief, "By the way, you and that little girlfriend... India Eisley have maintained a relationship for quite a long time. Why, are you going to take it easy?"

"Ahem..." Take it easy? It doesn't exist, Song Ya coughed.

"I found that your taste hasn't changed much over the years, and you prefer those with small animal faces..."

Sloan glanced at his watch, "Stop talking, let's go out, it's too late."

"Um."

Song Ya hugged her and performed a face-to-face ceremony. It is 2012, and she is almost forty years old, and she is also fifty years old. The beauty is late, and the flaming red lips that were so white and glowing back then can be touched lightly. to thick makeup powder and fine lines on the face.

"It's a pity that I can't accompany you to the scene this time."

Of course, she is still very thin, and her temperament is still capable and sharp. Over time, she has become a little more calm and elegant. She saw each other off all the way. When she was about to leave, she joked: "So... be smart, Boy."

"If the education minister of the current government sits behind me, the senators from the Elephant Party will be crazy."

Song Ya smiled back.

It is another general election year, and the Elephant Party spent a lot of effort to once again send itself, the big benefactor of the Michelle dynasty, to the Senate hearing, and that is today.

"I'll leave it to you, Linda." Sloan smiled to Linda who was waiting outside the door.

"Don't worry." Linda hasn't changed much, she's still the black bucket aunt, her body is more bloated, her gait is a little more staggering, she has already retired from the management position of the record company, "BOSS..."

"I'm going to trouble you again, Linda." Song Ya nodded with the muffler that opened the door, and quickly got into the car.

"Well, I'm honored."

Cadillac drove into Capitol Hill and joined the huge team of lawyers and staff who were already waiting there. "Ha! Pierre!" There are more black people. Pierre performed well back then and helped his immature self a lot at the hearing. "Long time no see."

"Yeah, you haven't changed Mr. APLUS at all."

Manhattan Gang, Pierre from the Inner City Broadcasting Department is much older, "Let's go in, it's time to start."

"OK."

Taking firm steps, Song Ya was hugged and walked towards the Senate hearing hall. On the way, she met acquaintances from time to time, such as the former ace anchor Gordon who is still working as a federal congressman in Boston.

"Mr. APLUS."

"Mr. Congressman."

After the great economic crisis in 2008, Gordon returned to the right on the political spectrum. The middle line is not very popular with voters. This year's re-election campaign should be very difficult.

But that's not Song Ya's concern anymore. Gordon has always been grateful to himself and cooperated actively in the House of Representatives.

Of course, Song Ya's money has not been cut off.

It was not an occasion for conversation, the two only exchanged a few words.

"Jenny? Hi!"

Jenny in the Information Department was standing outside the hall door to explain her work to her colleagues, but Capitol Hill was not included in her usual scope of work, and her presence here should have been intentional.

"Hi, APLUS."

Not to mention intimacy beyond the normal scope, Jenny is the "big star" in this government, with countless eyes staring at her in the workplace, and in public, she is even the object that the camera likes to capture. news.

"You are on time."

Jenny pushed the door open, and she, who had always been slightly plump, was very anti-aging and still had a charm.

Because of her public office, the two children, Rams, will inevitably be exposed. She used the same excuse as Jodie Foster to get the adopted Haitian orphans.

"Call back." Song Ya winked at her quietly, and stepped inside.

The time was just right. The senators who attended the hearing had arrived, but they hadn't taken their seats yet. As soon as Song Ya and his party arrived, the shutters of the reporters immediately rang.

He sat in the middle of the testimony box behind his name plate, as usual, Linda sat next to him, and the lawyer was on the other side. Song Zecheng is usually not allowed to show up on this kind of occasion, and Pierre Sutton is the same behind him. Be ready to remind all kinds of details at any time.

"Wait, this scene..."

In the editorial room of the Mi Associated Press, the old editor-in-chief suddenly seemed to think of something when he saw the live photos sent back in front of him. "Nine...96? Are the old photos of APLUS's congressional hearings still on file?" He asked the editor.

"If there is, it must be there." The editor tapped the keyboard, and quickly found news photos from sixteen or seventeen years ago in the image database.

"Wow, Black Pharaoh was so young back then..."

The old editor-in-chief sighed repeatedly looking at the picture. The black pharaoh was only in his early twenties at that time, with his hands neatly placed on the table, and his eyes staring straight at the camera. He is much more handsome than he is now, still surrounded by Linda and white lawyers...

The lawyer was still Hamlin at the time, but the change of lawyer was not an editorial focus.

"APLUS was rich then, right?" the editor asked.

"Well, at that time Netscape seemed to have just been launched, and it was very popular. Everyone used Netscape's browser, and you young people don't understand." The editor-in-chief nodded.

"Huh? Is the woman in the back the Minister of Education Sloan?" The editor found out the news from Pierre Sutton in the back.

"Ms. Sloan has always been his... well, not this one."

The editor-in-chief picked out the ones that Zhang Slong didn't take into the picture, and picked out the ones with a similar layout in today's new photos, "Make a comparison note, send it out, and hurry up."

The editors took orders to start working, PS photos of PS photos, those looking for information looking for information, and soon, the two photos were cut into a wide format, and compared from top to bottom, they were put together.

In 1996, APLUS was at the hearing, age: 21, personal wealth: 500 million yuan.

In 2012, APLUS was at the hearing, age: 37, personal wealth: 40 billion yuan.

The black pharaoh's face below has become fatter, and he looks much greasy than before, but the tycoon's style is unquestionable. He no longer cares about the camera, and keeps looking down at the documents on the table. On the paper document, he was thinking about something alone, completely unable to see any emotion from his expression.

"The whole world hasn't come out of the financial crisis, but these rich people are even richer." An editor looked at the string of zeros behind the four and complained.

"Hmm." The editor-in-chief didn't want to talk about this issue.

On the stage, Senator McCann, who lost the election on behalf of the Elephant Party in 2008, was reading the manuscript. Song Ya slid the document on the table and listened attentively.

A few minutes later, the questioning session began, "APLUS, I have a document here, which shows that the campaign team of the current grand commander purchased an Internet consulting department from your Litman Media from 2007 to 2008. The service called 'Internet Data Consulting' is used to assist the campaign, can you confirm its authenticity?" A senator from the Elephant Party held up a document and asked.

The lawyer next to him pushed the relevant documents and the "correct answer" in front of him.

"Yes, I confirm, Mr. Senator." Song Ya approached the microphone and replied.

"According to the investigation of the Office of the Special Prosecutor for the Election, your Internet consulting department has used a large amount of data from the YAHOO search engine, including user profiles, search keywords, and other content that involves personal privacy..."

"It is said that the call is inaccurate, and it is more appropriate for some senators to use Internet-based public information retrieval technology. Littman Media pays great attention to protecting users' personal privacy, and it is even more impossible to violate it. This is our obligation."

"Haha, since you also held shares in YAHOO at the time."

"I'm just a small investor, and I've never held any position in YAHOO. The two parties are just business partners."

In 2009, Song Ya cooperated with Carl Icahn and other YAHOO shareholders to make troubles, and successfully forced YAHOO to agree to a premium acquisition of more than 40 billion dollars from Microsoft, and took the money to get away, "And now they are all withdrawn, Mr. Senator."

If you don't accompany Microsoft and the richest man to challenge Comcast's Robertson family in the future, everything will be perfect, Song Ya is slightly regretful, "What? I didn't hear clearly, sorry, Mr. Senator."

"I mean, you and Littman Media were deeply involved in and manipulated the 2008 election. Do you admit this?"

"No, Mr. Senator."

"A...Mr. Song, according to the information we have, OpenDiary under Littman Media is already one of the most popular social networking sites for Americans to log in to. You are also the world's largest personal blog, social games and categories based on topics and interests. At the same time, OpenDiary has not provided account login verification services for other websites, and its current market share is..."

"That's right."

"The Beats website owned by your Palm company is currently the second largest online music store and the largest music exchange community and record database in the world."

"Yes."

"Have you used this data for the campaign, or used it to help push campaign ads to target groups? Answer me after you think about it."

"OpenDiary and Beats websites have the most stringent privacy protection clauses, and everything we do is legal..."

Nonsense, of course he used it, and the 2008 general election made him more aware of the power of using these big data technologies to influence public opinion and the power of the general election, but Song Ya will not admit it, and of course he cannot directly deny it. Anyway, the hearing He knows the tricks by heart, "Mr. Senator."

"Please answer me directly."

"This is a question that is difficult to answer simply, Mr. Senator. The Internet is open. The concept of Web 2.0 is that users are not only the viewers of website content, but also the producers and sharers of website content. Users themselves are in the interactive or passive role. In interactive social behaviors, they actively share public information with others, which..."

Song Ya began to drop the book bag and reread the long text.

"Puff..." Jenny, who was watching the broadcast outside, couldn't help laughing when she saw this familiar scene. This trick has been tried and tested by men for more than ten years.

The old veterans can't keep up with their thinking at all. They don't understand at all. Besides, they can't really take the fifth richest man in the world. His industries span media entertainment, the Internet, chip design, consumer electronics, brewing and even national defense subcontracting. How is the New Chicago Consortium in other fields thinking? The purpose of arresting people is to sabotage the re-election campaign of the current commander-in-chief. They don't want their rare time to be wasted, so they soon began to 'appeal to emotion'.

"I still have a document here, or a form."

McKenn showed new evidence, "You and the companies and organizations you control will rate Quanmi's candidates according to this table, and combined with the data collected by you infringing on users' personal privacy, we will comprehensively judge a candidate. win rate, and then decide how much political donations to invest in the opponent, is that right?"

"It's not true." Song Ya denied.

"Please repeat this answer and pay attention to the records." McKen bluffed.

"That's not true, Mr. Senator."

This table was made by Sloan before. How much points are added for supporting gun ban, and how much points are added for supporting racial equality, LGBTQ, women's rights, immigration, abortion and other issues. The candidates are ethnic minorities, women, immigrants, LGBTQ and so on will add as many points as possible. If Xiangdang hadn't obtained this form by some means, he would not be forced to sit on this chair today.

Fortunately, the form in their hands is not a complete version, and the chain of evidence traced back to themselves or their own companies and organizations is not sufficient. "I didn't know such a form existed...in fact, this is the first time I have seen it."

"You're lying and perjury at congressional hearings!"

"I promise I haven't, Senator."

"Hehe, APLUS, do you know what people in the U.S. Congress call you and your congressmen privately here?"

"There is no such thing as my congressman."

"A+ network! And you, the real center of this dirty political spider web! Not the guy in the White House!"

"That word sounds like a poor imitation of the Koch octopus haha..."

Song Ya retorted a little sharply and then raised her hands in surrender, "I was just joking, Mr. Senator. I did fund some campaigns, but what I did was no different from other white Americans who are interested in politics."

McKen also stopped in moderation and stopped chasing and beating hard.

After passing the level easily, Pierre Sutton and the lawyer didn't make any interruption reminders halfway, so Song Ya had the leisurely time to pose and accept the reporters who gathered around to take pictures.

"An African-American rich man funded the African-American leader. Because of this, he was summoned by the Elephant Party to Capitol Hill to be besieged! Slandered! Persecuted!"

That night, Rashida scolded with grief and indignation on the anchor station, "This is racial discrimination! Think about it, if APLUS is white, would he be treated like this?"