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2021-05-19 Government Corruption
Purge at the Pentagon: Outrage as Defense Secretary's woke race adviser plans trawl of military personnel's social media for 'extremist and concerning behavior' - using private company to circumvent the First Amendment


[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The Pentagon is planning to 'continuously' trawl the social media accounts of military personnel for extremist behavior and views under a pilot program

  • Details of the program haven't been made public but emerged from sources and internal documents obtained by The Intercept

  • The program is being spearheaded by Bishop Garrison, a senior advisor to President Biden's Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin

  • Garrison has previously said Trump and his supporters are racist and is an advocate for Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project

  • Officials say it'll use the services of a private surveillance company to try and circumvent or avoid any criticism regarding First Amendment protections

  • Babel Street, a company that sells social media monitoring software, is the front runner to carry out the surveillance

  • The program will likely use keyword searches on social media to identify military personnel with extremist political views or behaviors

  • Furious critics have been quick to slam news of the potential program, saying the keyword search strategy is flawed because it is an invasion of privacy

  • They also argue it will return 'false positives' and undermine morale if military personnel are constantly second guessing what they post on social media
Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top

#1 
The SecDef is turning the military into,



Really man, this is foolish...

Just ask your advisers...



Posted by Thrineling Omasing2716 2021-05-19 03:35||   2021-05-19 03:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Making sure anyone promoted to E9 is black should certainly be in Garrison's playbook. Oh WAIT !
Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-19 07:40||   2021-05-19 07:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Capital Hill Protestors and right wing extremists should target and destroy Babel Street with a flag waiving anthem singing protest.
Posted by Spoter B 2021-05-19 07:57||   2021-05-19 07:57|| Front Page Top

#4 At what points will soldiers and their familes put up with this?
I wonder if the spices can sue the Pentagon for all sorts of violations starting with illegal state surveillance using private company puppets.
Posted by Percy Flotle3938 2021-05-19 09:16||   2021-05-19 09:16|| Front Page Top

#5 ..it will be told in the recruitment and reenlistment numbers.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-05-19 09:42||   2021-05-19 09:42|| Front Page Top

#6 DHS offers $500k for public-private data sweep targeting 'violent extremists' in law enforcement
Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-19 11:34||   2021-05-19 11:34|| Front Page Top

#7 USPS uses facial recognition from controversial company Clearview AI and fake identities online to snoop on Americans: Law enforcement arm then feeds findings back to other agencies
Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-19 11:47||   2021-05-19 11:47|| Front Page Top

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