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Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance (vice.com)
Alice Marshall shares an excerpt from Motherboard: The United States government is accelerating efforts to monitor social media to preempt major anti-government protests in the U.S., according to scientific research, official government documents, and patent filings reviewed by Motherboard. The social media posts of American citizens who don't like President Donald Trump are the focus of the latest U.S. military-funded research. The research, funded by the U.S. Army and co-authored by a researcher based at the West Point Military Academy, is part of a wider effort by the Trump administration to consolidate the U.S. military's role and influence on domestic intelligence.
The vast scale of this effort is reflected in a number of government social media surveillance patents granted this year, which relate to a spy program that the Trump administration outsourced to a private company last year. Experts interviewed by Motherboard say that the Pentagon's new technology research may have played a role in amendments this April to the Joint Chiefs of Staff homeland defense doctrine, which widen the Pentagon's role in providing intelligence for domestic "emergencies," including an "insurrection."
The vast scale of this effort is reflected in a number of government social media surveillance patents granted this year, which relate to a spy program that the Trump administration outsourced to a private company last year. Experts interviewed by Motherboard say that the Pentagon's new technology research may have played a role in amendments this April to the Joint Chiefs of Staff homeland defense doctrine, which widen the Pentagon's role in providing intelligence for domestic "emergencies," including an "insurrection."
So the neo-nazis are liberals now ?
For fuck's sake... You trumptards really do live in your own special version of reality. There really is no hope for humanity.
Proud of? The country that invented Jim Crow? How are you people proud of anything? You used nuclear weapons, for fucks sake. The sooner the USA falls the better for the whole world.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Apart from not very widespread radical Islamic and Christian terrorism, the only terrorism that currently takes place in the US is right-wing terrorism, such as ploughing through crowds by car, sending bombs to Trump adversaries, and shooting people in a synagogue. If you look at the actual statistics, domestic left-terrorism is virtually non-extent and has never played any role in the US (unlike Europe in the 70s). Don't get me wrong, I'm not claiming that right-wing terrorism is a sizeable problem in the US, it's fairly insignificant, but it's way larger and prominent than any perceived left-wing terrorism.
On a side note, never, ever use Breitbart.com as a source for anything. It is not a news site, it is an extremist news aggregator site with extremely violent and extremist followers, as anybody is welcome to verify by checking the comment section of any "news" article published there. If you disagree, take a look again. (Or, somebody who has the spare time could just go there and copy&paste some comments from there below. The first time I ever checked out Breitbart in 2016, the top commenters were discussing how to best gas all US American jews, and every time I come back it's something similar.)