Reader says, PJ, you are about to become “nationally known”, if you weren’t before…:
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Full Title: The Department Of Homeland Security Plans To Compile A List Of All Bloggers, Journalists And “Social Media Influencers”
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Many were hoping that once Barack Obama was out of office we would see less of this Big Brother surveillance nonsense, but instead it seems to be getting even worse. In fact, the Department of Homeland Security has just announced that it intends to compile a comprehensive list of hundreds of thousands of “journalists, editors, correspondents, social media influencers, bloggers etc.”, and collect any “information that could be relevant” about them. So if you have a website, an important blog or you are just very active on social media, the Department of Homeland Security is going to put you on a list and will start collecting information about you. The DHS has already announced that it will hire a contractor to aid in monitoring media coverage, and they will definitely need plenty of help because it is going to be a very big job…
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(Excerpt) Read more at endoftheamericandream.com
Meanwhile Homeland Security didn’t know,, couldn’t tell about the Russian ads on Face Book or where ever that influenced the election. What they are doing is a waste of tax dollars. I guess they have a lot of hours with nothing to do. They get big dollars for busy work.
Gee, does sound like the beginnings of the “Social scoring” system now being implemented by the Chinese government?
Far too much scrutiny and criticism of the free press. First step in fascism.
Yes…yes it does, 9:58am! Good pickup.
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The federal government should be inundated with FOIA requests from millions of private U.S. citizens for any and all information, digital and otherise, that it holds on them. Uncle Sam would get so tired of tracking down and turning over such information that it would eventually elect entirely to get out of the business of total domestic surveillance.
It’s over folks…
All the young ‘uns, support and embrace this and willingly sign over their freedoms.
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Enjoy it while you can and be thankful you’ll (hopefully) be long gone when it gets truly dystopian.
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