Posted on 07/07/2021 7:37:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Move over, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg-a new player appears to be showing up in the private surveillance arena.
“Oh come on!” … but the United States Postal Service actually has a program that spies on citizens’ social media posts called (oddly enough) iCOP.
That’s not a typo. iCop is being used by the USPS to look for “inflammatory” posts.
According to a Yahoo! article that described the program: “The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as “inflammatory” postings and then sharing that information across government agencies.”
But it was kept “hush hush” until now, so I am taking odds that the USPS didn’t bother with pesky “permission” before openly spying on U.S. citizens. Of course, with the announcement they also offered their reasoning for using such an invasive measure of surveillance…
They were filtering the web for posts about a potential threat in the U.S. on March 20th. That threat ended up being nonexistent of course. Surprising, since ALL terrorist attacks begins with a Twitter post detailing the nefarious plans.
Continued: “The government’s monitoring of Americans’ social media is the subject of ongoing debate inside and outside the government, particularly in recent months, following a rise in domestic unrest.”
It looks like the Biden administration is about to tighten the screws on its citizens even further. It’s actually pretty easy: the U.S. Government screams “DOMESTIC UNREST” and that gives them a blanket permission to put the Constitution in with the magazines in the water closet.
Corporations and Government Working Together (To Trample on Your Liberties)
Homeland Security has to jump through a bunch of hoops to (legally) keep an eye on you. So to circumvent that, Biden is considering an “end around.”
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Yes every piece of mail is photographed and recorded. That is an extention of the surveillance state
Avoid UPS unless you are comfortable supporting the Teamsters. FedEx is non-union.
#4. Why is the number “57” so important re leftists?
Obama and his “57 states”, not of the US but Islamic states.
Teresa Heinz of “57 flavors” is a donor to major leftist causes along with her pet husband, John “The Traitor” Kerry.
Now you say it takes the Postal Service “57 days to deliver my Christmas package”. Maybe they were celebrating Christopher Columbus Day in November and got a little behind in their deliveries. Oh wait, there is NO “Columbus Day”. My bad.
“57 Ways to Leave Your Lover”? Opps, Paul Simon’s title was actually “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” but in today’s attacks on math, who knows. Maybe “57” is the new “50” (states, flavors, Number of Democrat leftist and GOP RINOS in Congress?
Ever since little George and Big Dick started the War on Terror the DC coffers are flowing with funds for well-connected insiders to do stuff like this to undermine the rights of law abiding citzens. Its all welfare for the MIC in the face of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
I have never had a social media account as and never will. My friends all complain about Liberals hateful replies to their posts. Why do it?
It took them until March to deliver the Christmas pictures.
That’s a bit too late to mail out but I did only to find out many had been damaged so had to re-send. Hope they got rich of the stamps.
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