Secret Service Hunts Down Sarcastic Tweets .we are no longer free people

[Lovebears65]

Social Security Hunts Down Sarcastic Tweets | The Daily Caller

We are no longer a free country when they take away our freedom of speech. I hope you liberal whacks are happy

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Where do people get the idea that Democrats are Nazis?

 

[Plasmaball]

Omg!

 

[g5000]

Here is the source article: Secret Service Software Will 'Detect Sarcasm' in Social Media Users - Nextgov.com


I know...I know. Why go to the source when you can read about it through the proper partisan filters instead?

 

[Siete]

Here is the source article: Secret Service Software Will 'Detect Sarcasm' in Social Media Users - Nextgov.com


I know...I know. Why go to the source when you can read about it through the proper partisan filters instead?

If the right had NOTHING to talk about what else could they talk about?

 

[theDoctorisIn]

How does this make us "no longer free"?

 

[g5000]

How does this make us "no longer free"?

It is troubling if the government is monitoring our online chatter. Very troubling.

Totalitarians have this nasty habit of finding what they are looking for, even if it isn't really there.

How productive is devoting the massive amount of manpower and treasure to this kind of effort? Resources that could be better spent perhaps. Resources that become a means unto themselves. Resources which begin to feel pressure to justify all that manpower and treasure being spent.

Did the Tsarnaev brothers brag on an internet forum they were going to blow up the Boston marathon?

 

[R.D.]

This is just great! I mean, really! Can you think of a better way to spend tax money? Best idea EVER!

 

[theDoctorisIn]

How does this make us "no longer free"?

It is troubling if the government is monitoring our online chatter. Very troubling.

Totalitarians have this nasty habit of finding what they are looking for, even if it isn't really there.

How productive is devoting the massive amount of manpower and treasure to this kind of effort? Resources that could be better spent perhaps. Resources that become a means unto themselves.

Did the Tsarnaev brothers brag on an internet forum they were going to blow up the Boston marathon?

"Troubling"? Sure.

Surprising? Not so much.

Why wouldn't the government do this? They're not breaking any laws, or violating privacy - tweets are by definition a way to quickly put your opinions into the public sphere. If you don't want the government reading your tweets, don't ******* tweet. It's as simple as that.

 

[BlindBoo]

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[g5000]

(knock knock knock)

CITIZEN: Yes? May I help you?

SS: We're from the Secret Service. You made an inflammatory statement about the President online last night.

CITIZEN: YOU SAW THAT?!?!

SS: We'd like to bring you in for some enhanced interrogation. Maybe a little waterboarding. Don't worry. It isn't torture.

CITIZEN: I was just venting some steam. I wasn't serious!

SS: Our software thinks you were serious. Come with us, please.

 

[Mac1958]

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This certainly would not be the first example of a central authority slowly but surely clamping down on speech and expression, only to be supported by some of the populace.

"It's for the best", they've said. "We must comply for the good of the collective".

There's nothing new under the sun.

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[g5000]

How does this make us "no longer free"?

It is troubling if the government is monitoring our online chatter. Very troubling.

Totalitarians have this nasty habit of finding what they are looking for, even if it isn't really there.

How productive is devoting the massive amount of manpower and treasure to this kind of effort? Resources that could be better spent perhaps. Resources that become a means unto themselves.

Did the Tsarnaev brothers brag on an internet forum they were going to blow up the Boston marathon?

"Troubling"? Sure.

Surprising? Not so much.

Why wouldn't the government do this? They're not breaking any laws, or violating privacy - tweets are by definition a way to quickly put your opinions into the public sphere. If you don't want the government reading your tweets, don't ******* tweet. It's as simple as that.

It's an ice cold death grip around the throat of free speech in the public square. No different than FBI informants attending meetings of left wing groups in the 60s.

 

[Siete]

This is just great! I mean, really! Can you think of a better way to spend tax money? Best idea EVER!

defund Healthcare 55 more times

 

[theDoctorisIn]

(knock knock knock)

CITIZEN: Yes? May I help you?

SS: We're from the Secret Service. You made an inflammatory statement about the President online last night.

CITIZEN: YOU SAW THAT?!?!

SS: We'd like to bring you in for some enhanced interrogation. Maybe a little waterboarding. Don't worry. It isn't torture.

CITIZEN: I was just venting some steam. I wasn't serious!

SS: Our software thinks you were serious. Come with us, please.

I can write fiction too.

When something like that actually happens, we can talk. The fact that something could happen isn't reason to believe that it will.

 

[BlindBoo]

Where do people get the idea that Democrats are Nazis?

From Projectionist Republican Nazis, of course.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

It is troubling if the government is monitoring our online chatter. Very troubling.

Totalitarians have this nasty habit of finding what they are looking for, even if it isn't really there.

How productive is devoting the massive amount of manpower and treasure to this kind of effort? Resources that could be better spent perhaps. Resources that become a means unto themselves.

Did the Tsarnaev brothers brag on an internet forum they were going to blow up the Boston marathon?

"Troubling"? Sure.

Surprising? Not so much.

Why wouldn't the government do this? They're not breaking any laws, or violating privacy - tweets are by definition a way to quickly put your opinions into the public sphere. If you don't want the government reading your tweets, don't ******* tweet. It's as simple as that.

It's an ice cold death grip around the throat of free speech in the public square. No different than FBI informants attending meetings of left wing groups in the 60s.

Well, no. It's not.

There is no expectation of privacy on Twitter. None whatsoever - in fact, the whole point of it is that it's completely public.

If I wrote a manifesto on the outside wall of my house, should I be surprised if the police read it?

 

[AvgGuyIA]

Where do people get the idea that Democrats are Nazis?

From their actions. After all, nazis are left-wing radicals.

 

[Kondor3]

(knock knock knock)

CITIZEN: Yes? May I help you?

SS: We're from the Secret Service. You made an inflammatory statement about the President online last night.

CITIZEN: YOU SAW THAT?!?!

SS: We'd like to bring you in for some enhanced interrogation. Maybe a little waterboarding. Don't worry. It isn't torture.

CITIZEN: I was just venting some steam. I wasn't serious!

SS: Our software thinks you were serious. Come with us, please.

I can write fiction too.

When something like that actually happens, we can talk. The fact that something could happen isn't reason to believe that it will.

Hmmmmmmm.....

There is an old maxim...

"Just because we CAN do a thing, does not mean that we SHOULD do a thing."

Are you really and truly ready to trust the Federal Government to make the right call, when the time comes to ask that question behind the scenes...

Under conditions in which neither you nor I will ever be privy to that question-and-answer?

I haven't given it much thought, yet, but, on reflection, I don't think that I trust them to reach the right conclusion.

 

[The T]

Where do people get the idea that Democrats are Nazis?

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