Posted on 03/26/2021 2:34:41 AM PDT by gattaca
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.”
Here’s the article:
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security, created after the 9/11 attacks to protect the country from international terrorism, is moving toward a sweeping set of policy changes aimed at detecting and stopping what intelligence officials say is now a top threat to the homeland: domestic violent extremism.
Two senior Biden administration officials told NBC News that DHS, whose intelligence division did not publish a warning of potential violence before the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, is seeking to improve its ability to collect and analyze data about domestic terrorism — including the sorts of public social media posts that threatened a potential attack on the Capitol, but were not deemed “actionable” by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.
DHS is planning to expand its relationships with companies that scour public data for intelligence, one of the senior officials said, and also to better harness the vast trove of data it already collects on Americans, including travel and commercial data through Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service and other DHS components. (read more)
Expand your thinking to what was initiated with the COVID model for “contact tracing” and you can quickly see how physical proximity to a rogue dissident, a person with wrong thoughts – aka a domestic extremist, can result in you being labeled along with that dissident…. and you are on the list. Then overlay the efforts of Big Tech to assist the administrative state with an electronic trail of your habits, contacts, phone calls, text messages and internet patterns…. and you are on the list.
Remind yourself what FBI “contractors’ with access to the NSA database already did in their quest for political opposition research and surveillance {Go Deep}. Then overlay all of the above and you get an alarming picture that is not something to dispatch.
Enemy of the State.
Holy Frack.
All the mass shooters seem to always be on the FBI “watch list” and to remain unmolested and I would imagine that there would be no change at all in that particular sort of situation.
But law-abiding citizens who voted for Trump? Oh, wer’re gonna git you sucka!
Law enforcement and military have been using “the Analyst’s Notebook” for years to identify and detail human networks (the human terrain). It’s kind of scary that a) they are turning it against Conservatives/Patriots and b) big tech is going to do all the legwork for them.
I don’t really GAF anymore. The TSA has digitally raped me in 8 out of my last 10 airplane flights, so I’m totally used to it now. Next time I’m gonna request a young male instead of the Brunhïlde I usually end up with. 🤣
🎶Turning Chinese, I think we’re turning Chinese, I really think so🎶
*Brünhilde. My apologies to German dykes everywhere.
And they called Trump a Nazi.
Oh my God!
I guess we shouldn’t be shocked or surprised, but oh my God!
What happens when someone at DHS is deemed a ‘domestic terrorist’?
Well, it started with them banning ...awwww heck.
Freedom of Speech is being technologically put to death.
Bump
This is more “suppression fire” to keep you ducking and hiding so they can just walk up and put a bullet in your head.
“Beware if the savage roar of 1984” David Bowie
Paul Revere is about to ride!
I think its called projection.
And they project a hulluva lot.
What happens when someone at DHS is deemed a ‘domestic terrorist’?
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You will know you have been ‘deemed’ when they take you out to a high walled court yard with blood spattered stones ...
Private contractors will not necessarily be bound by any civil rights protections that police agencies are required to abide by.
Trump didn’t do any shit like this.
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