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power to endanger the public liberty." - - - - John Adams

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Thought Police record your Tweets and Facebook messages



"Obey. We are Watching You"
  • The Thought Police in the Defense Department spent millions to "research" your private conversations on social networks.
  • Program Goal  -  "Darpa seeks to develop tools to support the efforts of human operators to counter misinformation . . . "
  • Again, another 1984 Big Brother spy program that is fully and eagerly funded by the Democrat Senate and the "small government" GOP House.


The activities of users of Twitter and other social media services were recorded and analyzed as part of a major project funded by the US military, in a program that covers ground similar to Facebook’s controversial experiment into how to control emotions by manipulating news feeds.
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Research funded directly or indirectly by the US Department of Defense’s military research department, known as Darpa, has involved users of some of the internet’s largest destinations, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Kickstarter, for studies of social connections and how messages spread.
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While some elements of the multi-million dollar project might raise a wry smile – research has included analysis of the tweets of celebrities such as Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, in an attempt to understand influence on Twitter – others have resulted in the buildup of massive datasets of tweets and additional types social media posts reports The Guardian.
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Several of the DoD-funded studies went further than merely monitoring what users were communicating on their own, instead messaging unwitting participants in order to track and study how they responded.
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Shortly before the Facebook controversy erupted, Darpa published a lengthy list of the projects funded under its Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC) program, including links to actual papers and abstracts.
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The project list includes a study of how activists with the Occupy movement used Twitter as well as a range of research on tracking internet memes and some about understanding how influence behaviour (liking, following, retweeting) happens on a range of popular social media platforms like Pinterest, Twitter, Kickstarter, Digg and Reddit.

Unveiled in 2011, the SMISC program was regarded as a bid by the US military to become better at both detecting and conducting propaganda campaigns on social media.

“Through the program, Darpa seeks to develop tools to support the efforts of human operators to counter misinformation or deception campaigns with truthful information."
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However, papers leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden indicate that US and British intelligence agencies have been deeply engaged in planning ways to covertly use social media for purposes of propaganda and deception.
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Documents prepared by NSA and Britain's GCHQ (and previously published by the Intercept as well as NBC News) revealed aspects of some of these programs. They included a unit engaged in “discrediting” the agency’s enemies with false information spread online.

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1984 is Here
"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire." 
 
- - - Robert A. Heinlein


See some our recent articles on the growing and unconstitutional 1984 Police State.

THE FEDERALIST - "Cellphone spying technology being used throughout Northern California"

THE FEDERALIST - "Obama has military block Infowars.com - Freedom of thought is not allowed"

THE FEDERALIST - "High School Blocks Conservative Websites - Thought Police in Action"

THE FEDERALIST - "Obama's FBI orders police to stay silent on unconstitutional spying"

THE FEDERALIST - "Obama's Secret Service Wants Software to Spy on Social Media"

THE FEDERALIST - "Obama's U.S. Marshals Seize Spying Records to Keep Them From the ACLU"

THE FEDERALIST - "Thought Crime - America Marches to 1984"

THE FEDERALIST - "Microchip Human Beings says Google Exec & Ex-DARPA Director"

THE FEDERALIST - "Cops scan & record an entire city from the air"

THE FEDERALIST - "Thought Crime - Reading Winston Churchill illegal"

THE FEDERALIST - "The California Condom Police Are Here"

THE FEDERALIST - "FBI - 33% of Americans on Biometric Database by 2015"

THE FEDERALIST - "Sweden’s Totalitarian Face - Orwell's Thought Police Protect Islam"

THE FEDERALIST - "Secret military device lets Detroit area cops track your cellphone"

THE FEDERALIST - "The Thought Police Now Censor YouTube"

THE FEDERALIST - "NCIS is Spying on You for Big Brother"

THE FEDERALIST - "Orwellian Newspeak Dictionary Updates, Part II"
 
 
 
 


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"The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed--would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper--the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you."
George Orwell
1984, Book 1, Chapter 1

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