Are your students going to be tapped?

Interesting article regarding the "tapping" of online youth communities by the US State Department. The lessons of Obama's historic use of social networking to attract and engage youth voters seems to have been learned by the State Department. What impact does the power and resources of the "State" have on the potential influence of a non-partisan, critical social studies class?

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/technology/5169248/us-taps-online-youth-groups-to-fight-crime-terrorism/