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Facebook Helps Israel Blacklist Air Travellers
Jeremiah Cornelius writes "According to a report by the Associated Press, protesters have been stopped in their tracks after Facebook aided Israel in cracking down on the group of activists from the UK, France, and Belgium who planned their event using the popular social networking site. Facebook allowed government agents to track the activists activities and then create a black-list of people who participated in the planning of the protests. The black-listed group was then forwarded to airlines with instructions to prevent the activists from boarding air flights to Israel. Over 200 activists were prevented from flying after being added to the airlines terrorism watch list, according the the AP report. Was Julian Assange correct, when he warned that Facebook was a giant, 'appalling spy machine'?"
Parent modded "Troll", but I would say that I'm not surprised since it would in the world of today in the US be classified as racism.
The fear of "Racism" has in my opinion gone too far in some cases - but at the same time the US government still classifies people as being of different classes like Caucasian, Hispanic, Black etc...
So it's forbidden to joke about black people frequenting KFC but it's OK to have a government label on people classifying them???
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
Is that why the US frequently uses its veto to stop anything in the UN that might have an impact on Israel?