DHS monitoring Facebook, Twitter 24/7/365

The Department of Homeland Security has been monitoring social media and news media (particularly right wing sites like Drudge Report) for content that reflects an unfavorable view of the US federal government... Heaven forbid we have an opinion about our own government, one that is supposed to protect and serve us. just another exampe of the US federal government ridiculously thinking that it controls us, when in reality it is the complete opposite.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/group-forces-congressional-hearing-on-big-sis-twitter-drudge-spying.html

"A privacy advocacy group has swayed Congress to hold a hearing next week into the Department of Homeland Security’s practice of monitoring social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as media reports and organizations, including The Drudge Report.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) recently obtained close to 300 pages of documents, as a result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, detailing the federal agency’s “intelligence gathering” practices on the web.

Among the documents were guidelines from DHS instructing outside contractors to monitor the web for media reports and comments that “reflect adversely” on the agency or the federal government.

As Reuters reported last month, in early 2010 contractors were asked to spend 24 hours monitoring news media coverage on popular websites, including Facebook, Twitter, Hulu, WikiLeaks, as well as news sites including the Huffington Post and The Drudge Report."

We would have been on their radar if the other people here came back to life

on another note - did you disable the notification via colored flag of new posts? thats what I always look for cuz tehres too much to just browse through to find new posts