Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to ‘destroy America’ and ‘dig up Marilyn Monroe’.
Leigh Van Bryan, 26, was handcuffed and kept under armed guard in a cell with Mexican drug dealers for 12 hours after landing in Los Angeles with pal Emily Bunting.
Imagine for a moment, that you write articles for any one of a number of political blogs, posting them on various social media websites. How would you feel knowing that the federal government has permission to monitor your activities and collect personal information about you?
Freedom of speech might allow journalists to get away with a lot in America, but the Department of Homeland Security is on the ready to make sure that the government is keeping dibs on who is saying what. More…
From the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) website is a pdf copy, published January 6, 2011, which includes the sites and keywords being watched by the Office of Operations Coordination and Planning (OPS) and National Operations Center (NOC) in cooperation with the DHS.
Appendix A lists the “Social Media Web Sites Monitored by the NOC” and starts on page 14.
Appendix B lists the “Terms Used by the NOC When Monitoring Social Media Sites” and starts on page 19. More…
