Every one of ur ids and blogs and ur information linking you from one to another, ur credit cards, your details of schools and colleges, friends, etc etc are being traced this very minute, when u discuss anything abt the US, Iraq, Osama, Bombs, Bush, and other triggers. You are being tagged, tapped, slotted, and tailed, so u can be nailed, Yahoo, Google, all these supply information to the US govt. in a deal stuck. This is 3000 % more than what the communist govt of USSR did to its people.
2006-10-11 22:04:38 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Anti-US-policy... why... if you are against US then get the hell out.
If you have issues with certain things/policy that we have vote and be heard... call your congressman... seek change... let Capitol Hill know that you feel the need for change... and your 3000 percent more theory does not hold water... of the 300 million people in this nation it would take a huge work force to simply monitor even 10% much less answers on Yahoo.
Now if your A** get reported a couple of dozen times acting all
radical and so on you might just get somebody taking a look at you... Sheesh....
2006-10-11 22:15:03 · answer #1 · answered by RiverRat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am amaze ed at the answers that have been given on this subject, some even accuse this person of atrocities committed,
yet, have they taken the time to read the T,O,S, or privacy policy
on these sites? if so then they should know we are all susceptible to being monitored , spied on etc, even the news media has had its say in regards to the privacy of American citizens, I am damned sure not a commie nor terrorist and I do resent being monitored , so what does that make me? and I don't want to give up a freedom for a security, and as Ben Franklin said any one who will give up a freedom for security deserves neither, I agree, we have plenty of methods to investigate terrorist etc, with out sacrificing our freedom
strange, the very things our gov, has condemmed Russia and other nations of doing in the past our govt, does it now,
2006-10-12 06:22:12 · answer #2 · answered by jim ex marine offi, 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I could give a rats if the NSA, CIA, and Feds monitored my every move on the internet. They'd be bored to tears, quite frankly as all I'm interested in is makeup, skincare, clothes shopping and discussing world issues, right here.
If what our government's doing makes the KGB's tactics look like empty soup cans attached to strings, or an empty glass held up to a wall, so be it. Any way ya slice it, we're living in a completely different climate. If you can't come to grips with this reality, you're walking around with blinders on. And if terrorist plots and cells are being rooted out in this manner, so freakin' be it.
2006-10-12 05:46:41 · answer #3 · answered by olliebee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It might be worse than that:
Taken from the Mail And Guardian Online:
US develops software that could track global press
Fanny Carrier | Washington, United States
The United States Department of Homeland Security plans to develop software that analyses and summarises opinions expressed in articles, providing a possible tool for better monitoring what is written about the US in the global press.
The department says it will spend $2,4-million over the next three years supporting research at three US universities using computer science to analyse human language in texts.
"The work is really designed to get information extraction that would help the DHS review statements for sentiments or beliefs contained in statements, and to provide intelligence analysts within DHS," said Homeland Security spokesperson Christophe Kelly.
Kelly said the software would offer the department staff "another resource to conduct their work" -- even though the project has raised eyebrows among press freedom advocates.
Janyce Wiebe of the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, who will direct the research project, said that the funding will go towards basic research and not any monitoring of the global press.
The research will seek to "develop accurate and robust techniques for extracting and summarising information about events and opinions described in a text," Wiebe said.
Researchers from Cornell University and the University of Utah will also participate in the work, in a field computer scientists call "natural language processing".
"Their focus is to develop simpler, more efficient software, algorithms and mathematical architectures for use in a broad range of computing applications," Kelly at the DHS said.
The research team has gathered more than 270 000 articles from 180 news sources from around the world -- including Agence France-Presse -- between June 2001 and May 2002 covering a range of subjects including elections in Zimbabwe, relations between China and Taiwan, treatment of detainees at Guantanamo and the Kyoto protocol.
Each article has been manually annotated "with the meanings we want the software to learn to understand," Wiebe said.
The software envisaged by the DHS-funded research would be capable of tracking the ambiguities of human language, distinguishing the meaning of a sentence depending on context and summarising descriptions and opinions that appear in several different texts.
The researchers and DHS officials decline to discuss the possible uses of the software.
"It's just too early to speculate about what it would evolve into," Kelly said.
Several press freedom organisations have expressed concern that the US government wants to create a data base of certain media, particularly outlets that are the most critical of Washington.
"We're taking a very hard look to make sure that the outcomes of this are really in line with the missions of the DHS" to protect the United States from attack, said Kelly.
Asked if the software under development could allow authorities one day to determine which media or journalist appeared hostile to the United States, Kelly said it was too early to say. - Sapa-AFP
We should all be afraid, very afraid. The terms Orwellian and 1984 come to mind.
2006-10-12 06:43:52 · answer #4 · answered by Ni Ten Ichi Ryu 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think that the government doesn't do this for everybody? After all there might be coded messages in your emails...
I used to use a sig that quoted Robert A. Heinlein: "Be wary of strong drink. It will make you shoot at tax collectors-and miss." Care to bet the flags didn't go up on that one?
2006-10-12 05:49:21 · answer #5 · answered by Kevin k 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
USA is now towards to be dictactorship country since sense of freedom and democracy will slowly perished in history book. Bush will be an emperor for whole life.
2006-10-12 05:20:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
and now you've been labled as a communist sympathizer.
for the first answerer: grow up. open your eyes. google has no choice in the matter. National Security Agency monitors everything.
2006-10-12 05:14:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So what I live as a man and will die as a man.I will speak my piece and the Government be damned .I know MY country does not imprison people for speaking their mind.
2006-10-12 06:53:25 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO FEAR IS WORTH GIVING AWAY YOUR FREEDOM.
If my own government wants to feed and house me
for having the courage to express my thoughts
LET THEM COME
2006-10-12 05:18:18 · answer #9 · answered by Farnham the Freeholder 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's right, and because you've exposed the operation, and because we know where you are at this very minute, you're going down.
2006-10-12 05:13:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋