What a lovely black helicopter!
Posted on April 28, 2004 @ 10:45 am
From Yahoo News:
Blog-Tracking May Gain Ground Among U.S. Intelligence Officials
By Doug TsuruokaPeople in black trench coats might soon be chasing blogs.
Blogs, short for Web logs, are personal online journals. Individuals post them on Web sites to report or comment on news especially, but also on their personal lives or most any subject.
Some blogs are whimsical and deal with “soft” subjects. Others, though, are cutting edge in delivering information and opinion.
As a result, some analysts say U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials might be starting to track blogs for important bits of information. This interest is a sign of how far Web media such as blogs have come in reshaping the data-collection habits of intelligence professionals and others, even with the knowledge that the accuracy of what’s reported in some blogs is questionable.
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While blog postings are voluntary and available to anyone to read, some observers say blog monitoring by governments or the media raises civil liberties and privacy issues. One such critic is James Love, director of the Ralph Nader-affiliated Consumer Project on Technology.
“When you’re conducting surveillance where you have no expectation of illegal activity, there has to be some threshold to justify such surveillance,” Love said.
On an unrelated note, Apropos of Something and its webmaster — Rusty Shackleford of Ogden, Iowa — would like to reaffirm their support for any and all U.S. policies…past, present, and future.
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Interesting. I see I may have an AUDIENCE for my semi-crazed rantings. I shall have to cater to them…big ups to big brother, yo!
“I have a hostage…Rusty Shackleford…”
“Let’s talk about this…”
“Too late, I’ve killed Shackleford!”
GASP!
“No, wait. I didn’t. Shackleford wants to order a pizza.”
You see, this kind of sneaky crap would NEVER happen if *I* ruled the world. Heck no…we’d have very overt, highly visible people searching out the dissenting opinion…much more manly that way. No plain-clothes ninjas…no, sir…these ninjas would go from door to door killing those who resisted the status quo and burning those who didn’t go along with the program…ninjas with big monogram emblazoned jackets that read “Anhialators of Truth and Freedom” or ATF, for short…now THAT would be original…dagnabbit…
No deadgum way man dang ol bring no black copter dang shotgun if you’re interested.
Ninjas? Cool!
Go Japan!