DHS Shocker

[eolesen]

Tell us where you want your posts to be monitored then.

The next time you go overseas to any country, we should be able to monitor what you posted on any social media site, just to make sure you didn't get "radicalized".

First off, I assume that anything I write here is monitored, since the search results for this and other forums are regularly picked up by Google.

Second, if you have kids and haven't checked their social media, you're a fool. If you'd do it on your kids, why wouldn't you do it on someone looking to enter the country?

Call it a double standard, but what I do as a citizen is protected from action by the US government, regardless of where that takes place. US Courts have regularly afforded Constitutional protections to anyone inside our borders, including illegals.

What DHS is doing wasn't affecting US citizens or people already inside our border -- they were looking at activity taken by non-citizens outside our borders, none of which would be within the jurisdiction of a US court.

Some of you seem shocked that there are countries who might actually protect their borders and decide who can and can't enter. Apparently you don't travel much.

The UK maintains a list of people banned from entry due to their social media activity. It's the same list radio host Michael Savage wound up on. Australia and Singapore have also denied people visas on similar grounds. Canada still bans people with a DUI.

Last time I checked, all three of those countries were considered first world.

 

[Ms Tree]

I thought tbey were in the US?

 

[Dog Wonder]

They are everywhere, under beds, in closets, lurking outside every window, we must be prepared.

 

[townpete]

I thought tbey were in the US?

Who's tbey?

lol

 

[Glenn Quagmire]

First off, I assume that anything I write here is monitored, since the search results for this and other forums are regularly picked up by Google.Second, if you have kids and haven't checked their social media, you're a fool. If you'd do it on your kids, why wouldn't you do it on someone looking to enter the country?Call it a double standard, but what I do as a citizen is protected from action by the US government, regardless of where that takes place. US Courts have regularly afforded Constitutional protections to anyone inside our borders, including illegals.What DHS is doing wasn't affecting US citizens or people already inside our border -- they were looking at activity taken by non-citizens outside our borders, none of which would be within the jurisdiction of a US court.Some of you seem shocked that there are countries who might actually protect their borders and decide who can and can't enter. Apparently you don't travel much.The UK maintains a list of people banned from entry due to their social media activity. It's the same list radio host Michael Savage wound up on. Australia and Singapore have also denied people visas on similar grounds. Canada still bans people with a DUI.Last time I checked, all three of those countries were considered first world.

I see how you failed to answer this portion of the question :

"It should be very simple to monitor every post from every person who enters this country, correct?

You are an IT guy. Explain it to us. Maybe we can just "shut down the internet" for scary people like Trump suggested. That would be easy... "

Are you ready for this to happen? Who does it? One of your favorite Gov agencies? A newly created one? A private company who has zero political influence....

Feel free to expand on this.

 

[delldude]

They is here......

 
 

 
 
A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden.     The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the internet.

 
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data

 

[Glenn Quagmire]

Seems E is fine with it. You, not so much.

 

[Dog Wonder]

Why didn't you get caught in the net?