DHS Preparing to Use Private Contractors to “Scour Public Data and Social Media” To Compile Dissident Citizens for Watch List and No Fly Lists

The Last Refuge ^ | March 25, 2021 | Sundance

[T.B. Yoits]

“Preparing to use” private contractors? Eric Snowden was a private contractor as was Reality Winner.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“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.””

Really? All they have to do is go into the COVID database, eliminate everyone who took the vaccine then match those who haven’t with existing gun records. Those are the domestic terrorists. If I were a Democrat in office, that’s what I would do.

[Mathews]

Dude!!!! Ha ha ha hardeharhar. Awesome!

[VTenigma]

Man, that Patriot Act was a great idea. /s

[VTenigma]

I’ll take “they are disappeared” for $1000 Alex.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Hey I just saw my Chinese style social credit score was updated by the Biden government.
Maybe I will be allowed to buy food now ? Or travel?

[Buttons12]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon%27s_Enemies_List

[elpadre]

“dissident citizen” - and how do they define one?

There are coffee groups of old men, weekly bridge clubs of women, barber shops, hair salons, etc. all over America who openly speak in opposition to the Democrats attack on the US Constitution and all things good and decent. Are they “dissident citizens?”

[Magnatron]

From the description it appears DHS is going to pay “big tech” (Google, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, SnapChat, Twitter, etc.)...

And there you go...

Who didn’t see this coming?

Of course, NSA has been doing this already, but now it’ll be formalized.

[Bratch]

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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.

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[Lurker]

“Private contractors” means Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

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[sijay]

I guess we shouldn’t be shocked or surprised, but oh my God!

Just more of Dems weaponizing government bureaucracy. When knowledge of this becomes widespread, they will blame the contractors.

[Rebelbase]

What happened to “Dissent is patriotic”?

[Turbo Pig]

Private contractors will not necessarily be bound by any civil rights protections that police agencies are required to abide b

Ding, ding, ding...we have a winner! Now, how many people that are in your daily circle do you think will be able to pull that fact out of the ether on their own and see how bad this could turn out to be? I've got a pretty big circle, and I can think of probably 2 or 3 at most.

[9YearLurker]

We’ve got W to thank for their even being a DHS. (Though of course other ways would have been found.)

[mosaicwolf]

Social media? What fool has a social media account?

[Wonder Warthog]

As predicted when the “Department of Homeland Security” was originally instituted. And it was established by a Republican President.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

Here comes the “Palmer raids.”

5.56mm

[Wonder Warthog]

"Social media? What fool has a social media account?"

Wattaya think Free Republic is?? This will be one of the primary sources to scan.

[EBH]

You do right here on FR.

Years ago I recall Jim telling people to watch their language at one point. You think you are safe behind a screen name and VPN? LOL. I used to have it bookmarked, but it was a serious reminder to pay attention to the red words below every response box before posting.