Shut yo' mouth! The US government's Department of Homeland Security will soon spider the
entire web analyzing
all pages -- including
your blog -- for evidence of "terrorism".
The practical consequence for you is this: your posts and comments here may well get you investigated as a terrorist. Or put on a no-fly list. Or denied a job.
More inside, and a question for Markos.
Portions of this have already begun: the data mining only extends
prior government watching of the web for
"terrorists" like the ACLU.
But notfor political speech,
of course.
Never that.
So shut your mouth and shut down your blog and stop commenting here if you don't want to end up on a list of people to be "neutralized" -- like
Mario Savio, hounded for ten years despite never breaking a law.
Savio's "crime" was, ironically, leading the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. We'd do well to remember today Savio's words then:
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even tacitly take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears, and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus. And you've got to make it stop.
OF COURSE I (the diarist) want you to scream your outrage about this. (And that's why I'd like you to recommend it, so everyone will see it.)
This web surveillance isn't about terrorism, it's another tool to quash dissent.
It's something we must protest against, something we must fight.
Really, if I were a craven coward, would I have posted this diary at all? It'll surely be spidered along with everything else.
My question for Markos: eventually, the federal government -- if it hasn't already -- will ask you to provide server logs, so that it can associate posts with IP addresses, and track down the person who made the posts. Does dKos have an appropriately paranoid server log retention policy, so that you can honestly say you don't have any logs prior to say, last week? If not, why not?