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Biden admin mulls partnering with private firms to monitor extremists
nypost ^ | 5/3/2021 | Mark Moore

Posted on 05/03/2021 6:21:24 PM PDT by bitt

The Biden administration is reportedly considering contracting outside firms to track ​”extremist” chatter online in order to circumvent legal restrictions on the surveillance power of federal agencies like the Department of Homeland Security.

While the move would expand the government’s intelligence gathering capability, it would also add fuel to the widespread criticism of the government’s vast surveillance power and spawn possible legal action over the monitoring of Americans, CNN reported, citing sources.

The DHS is limited in its ability to surveil Americans on social media sites without strong justification and is prohibited from using false identities to get access to private messaging apps used by groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, the report said.

The federal government is only allowed to browse through the public information on platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; biden; bigbrother; bigtech; corporatism; despotism; fascism; monitorextremists; neanderthaljoe; policestate; privacy; smellslikefascism; spying; technotyranny
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1 posted on 05/03/2021 6:21:24 PM PDT by bitt
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

as seen on Tucker Carlson


2 posted on 05/03/2021 6:21:45 PM PDT by bitt (People who wonder if the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable.)
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So freakin’ illegal, but that don’t bother libtard animals.


3 posted on 05/03/2021 6:22:51 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: bitt

Just another way of funneling millions to their doxxing antifa friends.


4 posted on 05/03/2021 6:24:05 PM PDT by Fido969 ( Sc)
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To: bitt

You have no privacy rights on the internet. You waived them when you agreed to use Facebook, Google, Instagram, etc. So the government can monitor anything related to you on the internet.


5 posted on 05/03/2021 6:24:24 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: bitt

You mean like Fakebook, Twitter, Gmail, etc?


6 posted on 05/03/2021 6:24:27 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: bitt

Get ready, people.

It’s coming.

L


7 posted on 05/03/2021 6:24:46 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: bitt

Isn’t there this thing called the Fourth Amendment????


8 posted on 05/03/2021 6:25:49 PM PDT by ealgeone
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SS partners with SA

(good luck)


9 posted on 05/03/2021 6:25:53 PM PDT by A strike ( Barr to Gitmo, Fauxi to Florence supermax, Roberts to Terre Haute)
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To: ealgeone

This phony election had better be overturned fast.

The are feds are out-of-control.


10 posted on 05/03/2021 6:28:31 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: bitt

Gotta keep tabs on those white conserevative Christians.


11 posted on 05/03/2021 6:28:52 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: bitt

The next step in what the Nazis did in Germany.

Get others to report you. That is how they held power in that country. Through fear of being reported and turned in.


12 posted on 05/03/2021 6:29:02 PM PDT by crz
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To: bitt

twitter/facebook/google


13 posted on 05/03/2021 6:33:55 PM PDT by Pollard
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To: ealgeone

Isn’t there this thing called the Fourth Amendment????


Not on the internet.


14 posted on 05/03/2021 6:34:38 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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Biden admin mulls partnering with private firms to monitor extremists

And by “private firms”, they mean Big Tech.

There is a term for an authoritarian government welded to the interests of large corporations. The modern team is “corporatist”, but it’s also known by its more classical term “fascist”.


15 posted on 05/03/2021 6:35:13 PM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: bitt

“mulls” — in other words, it’s already going on big time.


16 posted on 05/03/2021 6:35:34 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“If we were in a real pandemic, there’d be no need to declare it.”)
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To: ealgeone

Isn’t the Fourth Amendment part of the Constitution? That old piece of parchment created by patriarchal white males, that document that everybody ignores while pretending to follow.


17 posted on 05/03/2021 6:36:32 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“If we were in a real pandemic, there’d be no need to declare it.”)
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To: Flick Lives

So we get to be antifa now? Where do I sign up to burn Harvard?


18 posted on 05/03/2021 6:39:29 PM PDT by Kudsman (Baby Lives Matter)
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To: crz

And the Brown Shirts were beating up and arresting the scapegoated people on false charges, for no other reason than they were Jews. In 1933, the Jewish population of Germany was 525,000, less than 1% of the total German population.

Can they do the same thing to 200 million whites, about 65% of the USA population? They will need an awful lot of kapos and gun confiscation.

.


19 posted on 05/03/2021 6:41:09 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“If we were in a real pandemic, there’d be no need to declare it.”)
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20 posted on 05/03/2021 6:46:06 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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