Official List Of Words Feds Monitor On Social Networking Sites

ActicistPost.com ^ | February 28, 2012 | Alexander Higgins

[Daffynition]

The Feds have been forced to release their social network monitoring manual, which contains the list of words the government watches on social media and news sites.

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Homeland Security Manual Lists Government Key Words For Monitoring Social Media, News

Ever complain on Facebook that you were feeling “sick?” Told your friends to “watch” a certain TV show? Left a comment on a media website about government “pork?”

If you did any of those things, or tweeted about your recent vacation in “Mexico” or a shopping trip to “Target,” the Department of Homeland Security may have noticed.

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These terms and others are “broad, vague and ambiguous” and include “vast amounts of First Amendment protected speech that is entirely unrelated to the Department of Homeland Security mission to protect the public against terrorism and disasters,” stated the Electronic Privacy Information Center in letter to the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.

The manual was released by the center a week after Homeland Security officials were grilled at a House hearing over other documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that revealed analysts were scrutinizing online comments that “reflect adversely” on the federal government. Mary Ellen Callahan, the chief privacy officer for the Department of Homeland Security, and Richard Chavez, director for the National Operations Center, testified that the released documents were outdated and that social media was monitored strictly to provide situational awareness and not to police disparaging opinions about the federal government. On Friday, Homeland Security officials stuck by that testimony.

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The Official List – Using these words online will put you in the crosshairs Big Brother’s multi-billion dollar spy machine

 

Domestic Security

Assassination

More...

Domestic Security
Assassination Attack Domestic security Drill Exercise Cops Law enforcement Authorities Disaster assistance Disaster management DNDO (Domestic Nuclear Detection Office) National preparedness Mitigation Prevention Response Recovery Dirty bomb Domestic nuclear detection	Emergency management Emergency response First responder Homeland security Maritime domain awareness (MDA) National preparedness initiative Militia Shooting Shots fired Evacuation Deaths Hostage Explosion (explosive) Police Disaster medical assistance team (DMAT) Organized crime	Gangs National security State of emergency Security Breach Threat Standoff SWAT Screening Lockdown Bomb (squad or threat) Crash Looting Riot Emergency Landing Pipe bomb Incident Facility

[Dr. Ursus]

I’d hit it! Thank goodness Laz is safe!

[Daffynition]

*Mexicles*??!!??

[Betis70]

Hmm, so posting “Drill Baby Drill” got me some looks by homeland security? I’d rather it got a look by the Energy Dept and DEP.

[P.O.E.]

Don’t see any Arab-sounding words on that list.

They do have a special section on the southern US border - wonder which side they’re watching?

[Daffynition]

Do you want a top or bottom bunk?

[Hardraade]

ITND

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well that sure sounds like a recipe for getting huge amounts of data that nobody has time to do more than barely skim.

[aruanan]

They really are out of their effing minds, aren’t they? The sooner all these folks get porked in the upcoming election cycles the better off we all will be.

[HiTech RedNeck]

But not “Gun”?

[Daffynition]

If you are looking for rhyme or reason about DHS you're on the wrong thread. :),P.

[ThunderSleeps]

I went to the site and read through the lists. What a ridiculous list. From the words and phrases on that I believe that literally every person I know who uses email, Facebook, and/or text messages probably generates at least one if not dozens of "hits" a day on that list. Sheesh, my kids play a lot of FPS games and talk about their "shots fired" stats. Oops, guess their on the list. My wife likes to shop at Target. Dang, she's up for review now. etc. etc.

Years ago, before "domestic surveillance" (oops, am I on the list now?) was even in vogue I had a friend who was concerned about it. Borderline tin-foil hat type, but with a twisted sense of humor. He set his tagline/signature for *all* of his emails to be something like "For my friends at NSA: nuclear Soviet Union submarine ..." Wonder whatever happened to Dave, he disappear a few years later...

[Betis70]

Depends. Are we being re-educated in Mexico or Canada?

[Daffynition]

Wonder how many cubicles are logged into FR?

[JoeDetweiler]

Contest....who can be the first to use all these words in one sentence?

And the sentence can’t contain a list....that’s too easy.

[rfreedom4u]

Maybe if we all visited a Target in Mexico that sells pork products we wouldn’t be sick from our own tainted food supply. But it’s an exercise in futility to question the people we have in power right now. Vote the bums out in the next election.

I’ve accepted that I am on several lists already and have been for some time. So be it!

[Daffynition]

Which has better food? ;)

[blam]

So.....

This thread is getting lots of attention?

[mykroar]

I’ll have to review the list later and make sure I you as many words as possible as often as possible.

[LibWhacker]

Don’t see anything about Allah or jihad on that list. Guess they don’t want to profile anybody, except patriotic Americans who are concerned about their slipping rights.

[Daffynition]

http://epic.org/

...if you want agita.

[Liberty Valance]

eeeh, thank goodness they left off communism, zeta's and Agenda 21.

[hal ogen]

They can “monitor” all they want. Screw ‘em. This America and there is a First Amendment.

[hal ogen]

They can “monitor” all they want. Screw ‘em. This America and there is a First Amendment.

[Daffynition]

I was just googling EPIC and *fusions centers* ...and my ‘puter froze up. WTH?

[saintgermaine]

George Orwell’s 1984 Big Brother is showing up on the horizon. Keep on re-electing the same goons and it will happen sooner than later. We have “One” in power right now who along with his “Kameraden” would just as well substitute the constitution for toilet paper. Just a thought to consider.......

[Lorianne]

If pork is one of the words, I’m toast.

[Lorianne]

If pork is one of the words, I’m toast.

[unixfox]

They left out...

F U B O !!

[Delta 21]

I sure that “Freeper” is at the top of the list.

I was also wondering if they took notice the other day when I called President Obama a SON-OF-A-BITCH upon the disclosure of the Hollywood types being allowed access to TOP SECRET military facilities so they could make a really cool movie and probly not directly related at how the SEAL team that took out Bin Laden was conveniently wiped out.

No black helicopters yet?

[Liberty Valance]

LoL - You forgot to hit the presearch button. DARPA Echelon Carnivore!

[cripplecreek]

I hate to talk about Mexico and the gun running scandal, I’d hate to be targeted and have the marxist government come gunning for me.

[Daffynition]

I didn’t find *Hope and Change*...wonder why?

[Fire_on_High]

As I said on the last thread about this crap, I imagine they have a ton of fun with MMOs and Minecraft. At least 3/4 of the nonspecialized terms get thrown around left and right for various games...

[darkwing104]

Viking Kitties are safe....

[MinuteGal]

I wish they'd add "loose" and "lose" to the list of red flag words.

Leni

[butterdezillion]

Everybody has used one or more of those words in their communications. This list will do nothing to narrow down potential threats, but it DOES give the feds permission to spy on everybody. They know who they want to spy on, and it has little to do with homeland security.

[Noumenon]

Wound my heart with monotonous languor

[Daffynition]

your and you're ...and

[altura]

They couldn’t possibly have time to monitor all those words even if they didn’t take smoke breaks.

This is just baseless hysteria.

I only have 60 or so friends on facebook and I see similar words used every day.

Perhaps if they have some other reason to have a person under surveillance, they might check his/her posts for certain words, but this is just silly.

[Arrowhead1952]

So let me see. If I went to a medical facility because I had an allergy attack that prevented me from being able to properly exercise and posted that here, I’d be on the watch list??

[COBOL2Java]

They can “monitor” all they want. Screw ‘em. This America and there is a First Amendment.

...for now

[WilliamofCarmichael]

I'm glad FR is not one of them social sites. Wot?

Here's how President Obama's head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and author of "Repulblic.com," Cass Sunstein, describes FreeRepublic.com as "group polarization," where people segregate themselves so effectively online with other like-minded thinkers that they create an echo chamber where the group's worst and most malevolent opinions get reinforced and strengthened. "We might want to consider," Sunstein startlingly told the Times recently, "the possibility of ways of requiring or encouraging sites to link to opposing viewpoints."

D'oh!

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[Daffynition]

Oh yah......maybe there is a *fusion center* committed to *analytic excellence* in your very own backyard: http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1296484657738.shtm

[manic4organic]

How about Bacon Explosion?

[Bobalu]

The words on the list also have to appear in context with other suspicious words to get flagged.

i.e. A phrase that contains “shopping” and “Target”
would not be flagged. The word “shopping” and the fact that Target is capitalized would mark the phrase as innocuous.

[Daffynition]

DHS is hiring.....http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/careers/content_multi_image_0014.shtm

About time those kitties earned their keep.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

Gee, I guess I'm safe here using such deragotory terms such as "Dear Leader," the "FASCIST Neo-Commie," " Islamic-Jihadist-Appeaser/Defender" etc, as well as Demo-Rats, the "Party of Surrender and Defeat," not too mention, referring to the head of the Dept of Homeland [IN]Security as that "Clueless, Fat Beatch?"

Guess I can stop watching for the black helicopters (or have they been replaced with drones yet?) and can sleep safely knowing the Gestapo-like, Jack-Booted Thugs will not be kicking my door in. lol

[Beagle8U]

It sounds like the government is going to target poor people from Mexico that eat a lot of pork, possibly by giving their computer a virus so they can’t shop online for medicine in Canada for common ailments like colds and flu, which could drive up prices to epic proportions and make flu shots more expensive, there by endangering population of the United States, Russia,and China.