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    Who are the NERD fund donors Mr Snyder?

    Raise the curtain.

    They're watching us: DHS is now monitoring Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and More.


    By DetroitRight, Section News
    Posted on Thu Jan 12, 2012 at 09:28:58 AM EST
    Tags: DHS, Big Government, Obama, Government, Police State, Politics, Opinion, News (all tags)

    Governments that watch their people,fear them

    Governments that watch their people, fear them:

    (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's command center routinely monitors dozens of popular websites, including Facebook, Twitter, Hulu, WikiLeaks and news and gossip sites including the Huffington Post and Drudge Report, according to a government document.</span>

    A "privacy compliance review" issued by DHS last November says that since at least June 2010, its national operations center has been operating a "Social Networking/Media Capability" which involves regular monitoring of "publicly available online forums, blogs, public websites and message boards."

    The purpose of the monitoring, says the government document, is to "collect information used in providing situational awareness and establishing a common operating picture."

    The document adds, using more plain language, that such monitoring is designed to help DHS and its numerous agencies, which include the U.S. Secret Service and Federal Emergency Management Agency, to manage government responses to such events as the 2010 earthquake and aftermath in Haiti and security and border control related to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia.

    A DHS official familiar with the monitoring program said that it was intended purely to enable command center officials to keep in touch with various Internet-era media so that they were aware of major, developing events to which the Department or its agencies might have to respond. --- Homeland Security watches Twitter, social media | Reuters


    I made reference to this in my previous posting. I had a video up there that could have been misinterpreated by some idiot Government zealot, so I canned it. I just do not want to take any chances. Either way, if they're looking at the big sites, like HotAir.com; you can bet they will be looking at the smaller blogs too.  I guess they figure if they cannot pass SOPA/PIPA, they will just snoop on us anyhow.

    Needless to say, I will not be shooting and posting anymore videos on this blog or anywhere else. I just don't need the hassle.

    ---
    (cross posted from thoughts and rantings)

    < Amash Should Be Primaried - Part III | Memo to CAIR: Thou Doth Protest Too Much >


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    Dear Feds, (none / 0) (#1)
    by maidintheus on Thu Jan 12, 2012 at 05:40:04 PM EST
    Be afraid, be very afraid (snicker).

    I'd comment (none / 0) (#2)
    by Bruce on Thu Jan 12, 2012 at 07:32:29 PM EST
    but it might be deemed subversive and they'd send me to Cuba.  Wait, it's winter here.  Okay, send me.

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