New attack site

• The Obama campaign launched the site romneyeconomics.com as part of the let's-go-after-Mitt-Romney's-business-record push that began Monday, calling into question the record of Romney's Bain Capital as owner of a Kansas City company called GST Steel. The site, which has at least 9,300 likes on Facebook and over 2,300 tweets, appears to be in part designed to look like a company homepage.

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• A Republican Super PAC called Crossroads Generation says it plans to particularly target young voters, starting with a $50,000 social media ad campaign targeting younger voters in eight swing states, including Ohio and Virginia. Meanwhile, Politifact can't find any proof of an assertion in an ad by American Crossroads that criticizes Obama's record by saying that 85 percent of college graduates have moved back in with their parents.

Around the web

• The conservative group American Future Fund released a web video alleging that Obama is too close to Wall Street.

• In a New York Times contribution, the Gregory Brothers — of Auto-Tune the News fame — have compiled a music video of all the things that Mitt Romney likes.

• Glenn Kessler fact-checks an RNC web video that seizes on comments made by Obama to suggest he sometimes forgets about the recession.

• The NSA has declassified a document after it was mistakenly posted online with its classified passages intact.

• Following several reports in news sources like ABC News and CBS News, the police chief of the town of Fort Lee, N.J. is clarifying that the town has not banned texting while walking, but has been stepping up its efforts to enforce jaywalking and has been warning about texting while jaywalking.

• The Forward takes a closer at what has been termed the Jewish Orthodox Rally against the Internet, noting that the campaign organizing the rally at New York's Citi Field has been spreading information on a Twitter account, organizers have an e-mail address, speeches will be livestreamed, and one of the organizers owns a search optimization company. The Forward reports that that web filtering technology will be a focus of the event:

  The event will open with a Kosher Tech Expo featuring Web filtering technology. Despite this new openness, the rabbis involved insist they still oppose the Internet. "The purpose of the [gathering] is for people to realize how terrible the Internet is and, of course, the best thing for every [good Jew] is not to allow it in his home at all," [Rabbi Matisyahu Salomon] told the Brooklyn Orthodox daily Hamodia. Salomon, spiritual guide of Beth Medrash Govoha, a large and prominent ultra-Orthodox yeshiva in Lakewood, N.J., is one of the lead sponsors of the Citi Field rally. Internet without a filter, he told the paper, is "treif gamur," or completely unkosher ... The outright bans, however, appear to be failing. Ultra-Orthodox men fiddle with smart phones on New York City subways. Twitter use is not uncommon among young Satmar Hasidim in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood. Home Internet access is said to be widespread even in upstate New York's strictly observant Hasidic community Kiryas Joel.

• The number of women in senior technology positions in U.S. companies has declined for a second year in a row, even as President Obama urged women at his Barnard commencement address to encourage their fellow students to study and take up careers in computer science.

• The Department of Transportation has launched a web-based dialogue on how to improve transportation for veterans and military families.

• A Commerce Department agency plans to ask for feedback on a planned nationwide public-safety broadband network.

• In an op-ed, Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md) writes in favor of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.

• Civil liberties groups say Republican cybersecurity legislation in the Senate is not an alternative to the Democrat-backed legislation they oppose, as a bipartisan group of Senators are expected to discuss cybersecurity today.

• Critics of a spectrum deal between Verizon and cable companies have formed the Alliance for Broadband Competition to work to prevent the deal or impose restrictions on it.

• The FTC plans to shift its online privacy efforts to focus on information that can “reasonably be connected to a device or a person," according to the Hill, moving away from regulations focused on names, Social Security numbers and addresses.

• The Massachusetts Appeals Court has ordered judges to do more to explain to jurors that not talking about a case also means not posting about it on social networks:

  “Jurors must separate and insulate their jury service from their digital lives,’’ the court said in a ruling involving a Plymouth Superior Court case in which several jurors made comments on Facebook during a trial. Those posts in turn elicited responding posts from friends. “Instructions not to talk or chat about the case should expressly extend to electronic communications and social media,’’ the court added in its little-noticed ruling two weeks ago.

• Techdirt reported that protesters managed to gain entry to a gala that was part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations and announced U.S. negotiators had won the 2012 Corporate Power Tool Award, while protesters also managed to replace toilet paper with TPP toilet paper. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a trade agreement among several Pacific Rim countries, now being negotiated, that will reportedly include new online intellectual property and copyright enforcement provisions.

• In partnership with Politifact, researcher Dan Schultz is testing software that highlights claims in news articles in different ways.

• Internet Week is taking place in New York City.

• Australia's ABC channel profiled Beppe Grillo, a comedian whose anti-government crusade in Italy has had some electoral success through social media:

  In Italy, political power is derived through ownership of TV and newspapers. All take an openly partisan stand and in return receive billions of euros in state funding. Long ignored by traditional media, Grillo took his campaign online, directly to Italy's disenfranchised youth. "With the net, with this great form of communication, of connecting ... that didn't exist before but now it's there, you can make miracles," he said. "That's what's happening today in Italy." It was a first for Italian politics. The online strategy caught the political establishment napping....With little mainstream media coverage, Grillo used the web and networking sites to pull huge crowds. He garnered hundreds of thousands of signatures for anti-government petitions.Grillo's blog is the most widely read in Italy, according to AFP. His Facebook fan page has 831,656 likes and he has 543,000 followers on Twitter

• In the International Herald Tribune, Judy Dempsey spoke with political analysts about how the Pirate Party has been affecting the established German parties.

• A Russian company says it has developed software, backed by Microsoft, that can block users from downloading pirated content.