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2021-03-26 Government Corruption
DHS Preparing to Use Private Contractors to "Scour Public Data and Social Media" To Compile Dissident Citizens for Watch List and No Fly Lists
[Conservative Tree House] The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is now getting ready to hire public companies, individual contractors outside government, to scour public data and social media in order to provide information for the new "domestic terror watch lists." From the description it appears DHS is going to pay "big tech" (Google, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, SnapChat, Twitter, etc.), via contracts, to hire and organize internal monitoring teams to assist the government by sending information on citizens they deem "dangerous."

Gee, what could possibly go wrong with this?...

NBC is reporting on these new developments as the U.S. intelligence apparatus is preparing to go live with the assembly of lists of Americans who "could be" potential threats to the government; and need to be watched.

However, even NBC is beginning to realize the consequences: "DHS planning to expand relationships with companies that scour public data for intelligence and to better harness the vast trove of data it already collects on Americans. The department is also contemplating changes to its terrorist watch listing process."
Posted by Angemble Phusock7954 2021-03-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ]  Top

#1 Watch list as in "We'll watch this crazy MKer to see what he does."
Posted by badanov 2021-03-26 00:09||   2021-03-26 00:09|| Front Page Top

#2 No doubt, Farcebook and TwIts will be contracted since they're already geared up to do it.
Posted by Mercutio 2021-03-26 07:38||   2021-03-26 07:38|| Front Page Top

#3 And thus begins the social credit system. You will not speak against the approved narrative or you will be destroyed.
Posted by DarthVader 2021-03-26 08:57||   2021-03-26 08:57|| Front Page Top

#4 They should call this the State Tracking and Surveillance Initiative, or STASI for short.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia  2021-03-26 09:04||   2021-03-26 09:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Neo-STASI's domestic terror flags - statements, comments or, in future versions, thoughts that assert such truths as:

- Michael Brown was not murdered rather shot in self-defense after threatening an officer's life
- George Floyd was not strangled rather died of a massive overdose of fentanyl
- Blacks are 7-8x more likely than whites to commit murder in the US
- US police shoot more whites than blacks every year
- There is no such thing as "systemic police racism" in the US
- BLM is a self-described Marxist revolutionary moment that seeks to use violence to overthrow the existing order in America
- there is no such thing as "white privileged"
- there is no such thing as "gender dysphoria"
- there are two genders
- the Biden family are corrupt grifters who've sold access to Joe Biden for over 25 years

All of the above are thoughtcrimes punishable by banishment from remunerative occupations and court-ordered re-education at CRT Struggle Sessions.
Posted by Phock Unererong9392 2021-03-26 11:02||   2021-03-26 11:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Does anyone doubt that this little corner of the etheric will escape their notice? Or are they passerby’s already?
Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-03-26 14:03||   2021-03-26 14:03|| Front Page Top

#7 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is now getting ready to hire public companies, individual contractors outside government, to scour public data and social media in order to provide information for the new "domestic terror watch lists."

I thought they already did that with Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Wikipedia, et al.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-03-26 15:23||   2021-03-26 15:23|| Front Page Top

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