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PENTAGON PLANS TO MONITOR SOCIAL MEDIA OF MILITARY PERSONNEL FOR EXTREMIST CONTENT
theintercept ^

Posted on 05/18/2021 6:02:41 AM PDT by mylife

AS PART OF the Biden administration’s crackdown on domestic extremism, the Pentagon plans to launch a pilot program for screening social media content for extremist material, according to internal Defense Department documents reviewed by The Intercept, as well as a source with direct knowledge of the program.

An extremism steering committee led by Bishop Garrison, a senior adviser to the secretary of defense, is currently designing the social media screening pilot program, which will “continuously” monitor military personnel for “concerning behaviors,” according to a Pentagon briefing in late March. Although in the past the military has balked at surveilling service members for extremist political views due to First Amendment protections, the pilot program will rely on a private surveillance firm in order to circumvent First Amendment restrictions on government monitoring, according to a senior Pentagon official. Though the firm has not yet been selected, the current front runner is Babel Street, a company that sells powerful surveillance tools including social media monitoring software.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: military; pentagon; privacy; socialmedia
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This is no longer my military.

Don't we have bigger boogers and haints to look at?

1 posted on 05/18/2021 6:02:41 AM PDT by mylife
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To: mylife

Like we used to say when I was a kid, “hey it’s a free country.”


2 posted on 05/18/2021 6:04:39 AM PDT by conejo99
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To: mylife

I think our military needs to pay attention to defending our country and not NOT prioritize attacking and purging military citizens from military ranks.

Note to the military surveillance team: I have never been in the military, but I strongly support what the military was before you guys took over.


3 posted on 05/18/2021 6:08:19 AM PDT by RatRipper ( Democrats and socialists are vile liars, thdieves and murderers - enemies of good and America.)
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To: mylife

The tyranny continues and ramps up a little. Defining extremism is anyone who believes America is a republic with a Bill of Rights.


4 posted on 05/18/2021 6:08:21 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: mylife

So.... on Facebook if you have a friend that posts something the Military doesn’t like, are you guilty by association?

THAT is precisely why I left FB 3 years ago. People were drawing conclusions about me based NOT on what I posted but on what my friends were posting.


5 posted on 05/18/2021 6:10:09 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting.)
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To: mylife

I warned all .

The black white hating EOE Obama General that
Trump did not fire will destroy the country .
This evil deranged Socialist white hater will make the military a Commie police force with no whites just like Cuba and Venazuela


6 posted on 05/18/2021 6:11:03 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists is )
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To: mylife

They are afraid the true patriots will rise up. Their fear may well be justified.


7 posted on 05/18/2021 6:11:30 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: mylife

Here’s an idea. Stay off public media unless you’re willing to fight to the death. Even if the government is prevented from observing you in that way you still have to deal with the Antifa doxxers.


8 posted on 05/18/2021 6:14:16 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: mylife

Who defines “extremist content”? Suspect with the commissars who run the Pentagon a soldier will be disciplined for posting “Happy Father’s Day”. Such a post demonstrates insensitivity to those without discernable fathers and suggests an affinity for patriarchy and white supremacy.


9 posted on 05/18/2021 6:14:18 AM PDT by allendale
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I’m White, good at Math, and a Veteran.
Am I an extremist?...


10 posted on 05/18/2021 6:15:52 AM PDT by EEGator
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"This is no longer my military."

Well, maybe we can hire some foreign country to do the job. You know, like the Romans did..

Maybe Iran could use the work.. Lets ask Obama...

11 posted on 05/18/2021 6:17:06 AM PDT by unread (Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire)
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To: mylife; SunkenCiv; LS; Liz

It’s starting!

And Bishop Garrison is a true, trustworthy patron of individual liberty and honest political morals! /sarchasm


12 posted on 05/18/2021 6:17:20 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: mylife

Law enforcement has been using third parties to get around laws and court orders for years. If a police department is barred from maintaining files on certain individuals, they just rely on some outside entity, like the ADL, to maintain files for them.


13 posted on 05/18/2021 6:18:21 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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DOD investigator: does petty officer Schmoe associate with communists?

good shipmate: he dances with Ivan all the time...


14 posted on 05/18/2021 6:20:08 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: EEGator

By definition of the current government.... yes.


15 posted on 05/18/2021 6:23:03 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I voted for prosperity, and I got poverty.)
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To: mylife

run your algorithm on that chucklehead..


16 posted on 05/18/2021 6:23:29 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

Several years ago my teacher buddy said the school board sent around an email stating that if they posted anything that went viral or became controversial they could be fired. if I was still in the job market i would erase my online presence. The control our online presence gives the woke crowd is disproportionate and inappropriate, but real nonetheless. I don’t like the vicious and graceless society we have become.


17 posted on 05/18/2021 6:33:13 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: mylife

A government agency hiring a private company to monitor the military would NOT avoid 1st Amendment concerns. In the slightest. It is STILL government monitoring.

This won’t hold up. Not in court and not politically.


18 posted on 05/18/2021 6:36:55 AM PDT by Mr Rogers
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Although in the past the military has balked at surveilling service members for extremist political views due to First Amendment protections, the pilot program will rely on a private surveillance firm in order to circumvent First Amendment restrictions on government monitoring, according to a senior Pentagon official.

Am I the only one who finds that this STILL blatantly violates the First Amendment?

Oh yeah, a private firm did this--not us!

We only pay them to do exactly what is unconstitutional...

Imagine if the Pentagon hired a private firm to go after the news media...

19 posted on 05/18/2021 6:37:01 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: mylife

If it is an illegal or prohibited activity for a government agency to perform, it should also be illegal and prohibited for a commercial entity to perform. If we actually had representation who cared about the people this would be the case. The MSM shut down their comment sections years ago because it exposed the fact that many people are not onboard with the agenda. This is no different, I know people in the DoD and they will not post their opinions for fear of losing their job. We need to rise up against this but we won’t.


20 posted on 05/18/2021 6:38:35 AM PDT by RBW in PA
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