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Homeland Security monitors journalists

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Homeland Security monitors journalists

Freedom of speech might allow journalists to get away with a lot in America, but the Department of Homeland Security is on the ready to make sure that the government is keeping dibs on who is saying what.

Under the National Operations Center (NOC)’s Media Monitoring Initiative that came out of DHS headquarters in November, Washington has the written permission to retain data on users of social media and online networking platforms. .... MORE

SourceRT.com

URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/homeland-security-journalists-monitoring-321/

1 comment

Jesusa Bernardo said...

Lol. exciting tumira sa imperyalistang kalbong agila ngayon ah. marami na ngang zombies mas lalo pang dadami. the greater zombification of americans...sabagay matagal nang ahente ng cia at corporate government ang mainstream media at ang gagawin lang ngayon ay lilinisan ng dissenters. karma ba tawag diyan kasi isang siglo ninyong pinabayaan katayin, tapakan ng pamahalaan ninyo ang ibang lahi??? ngayon, pati kayo magdusa.

"The department says that they will only scour publically-made info available while retaining data, but it doesn’t help but raise suspicion as to why the government is going out of their way to spend time, money and resources on watching over those that helped bring news to the masses.

"The development out of the DHS comes at the same time that U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady denied pleas from supporters of WikiLeaks who had tried to prevent account information pertaining to their Twitter accounts from being provided to federal prosecutors. Jacob Applebaum and others advocates of Julian Assange’s whistleblower site were fighting to keep the government from subpoenaing information on their personal accounts that were collected from Twitter."

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