Posted on 05/03/2021 7:42:16 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
The Biden administration is considering using outside firms to track extremist chatter by Americans online, an effort that would expand the government's ability to gather intelligence but could draw criticism over surveillance of US citizens.
The Department of Homeland Security is limited in how it can monitor citizens online without justification and is banned from activities like assuming false identities to gain access to private messaging apps used by extremist groups such as the Proud Boys or Oath Keepers.
Instead, federal authorities can only browse through unprotected information on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook and other open online platforms.
The plan being discussed inside DHS, according to multiple sources, would, in effect, allow the department to circumvent those limits. A source familiar with the effort said it is not about decrypting data but rather using outside entities who can legally access these private groups to gather large amounts of information that could help DHS identify key narratives as they emerge.
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Fascism. Period.
With the world to go up in flames and enemies invading us all around due to unenforced borders, this demonic administration wants to target Christians, Jews, Whites, Americans, and Conservatives.
Got it!
suspected domestic terrorists = political opponents
During the Bush years, the Democrats made a huge stink over using military assets to surveillance Americans.
I believe all the Military Intelligence units had to certify that they understood this and weren’t doing it.
So the Democrats just have foreigners and private sector do it.
What a bunch of liars and thieves the Democrats are.
No mention of BLM or ANTIFA?
Google Facebook Twitter are all private firms doing the bidding of the government same way with the Washington post which willfully printed fake news from the CIA to go after Trump
This would have been Stalin’s plan if he had the internet.
You hear that kind of thing all the time from former East Bloc, Cuba, Venezuela etc people calling in to good talk shows. Actually, you don’t have to have lived it in order to see what’s going on if one has half a brain and is not a democrat.
Osama bin-laden may have won after all given his actions spawned the Patriot Act 🤔.
Don’t worry, the government is “us”. Biden said so.
Yes, they are.
People better wake up. Our constitution forbids a police state.
Well, after all, they are DemocRATs...
There are almost certainly federal government people paid to read freerepublic.
That would provide full-time work for about four people, and probably does.
The federal government probably spends billions each year monitoring the domestic Internet.
Proud Boys Canada has been officially labeled as a terrorist entity by the Canadian government.
May? We know they’ve been doing it for a good while.
USSA bump for later.....
America, time to step up and put a stop to this. This is not America anymore.
This is Stasi tactics.
At this point anyone using Facebook, Twitter, or Google is complicit with the enemy.
And I do mean anyone.
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Domestic terrorists actually means Republicans and anyone who opposes the direction this country is going in.
Uncle joe is NOT a nice old man.
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