Like you, I've pretty much known that our online lives have been vacuumed into trillions of rubber-made storage bins (metaphorically speaking). And, like you, I chose to take a higher road and do my best to learn, understand, and share with others EVEN IF it rang some bell somewhere.
That said, amidst the gloom and doom feelings of having NO privacy and facing a potential future leader reminiscent of the murderous, Dystopian Leader that V for Vendetta spent a lifetime taking down, I found myself chuckling.
A nervous chuckle to say the very least, but something about this dark chapter in our already greying world, tickled my funny bone.
So, when I noticed the #TrollTheNSA hash tag on Twitter, I dropped in for a look see.
There are a lot of very funny people out there.
The funniest thing I have found, to date, is a Troll the NSA poetry contest linked here
The “Online Terrorist Keywords” Poetry Contest!
But darn, the contest is now closed. Here's the rules anyway. Maybe we can have a Daily Kos Troll the NSA Poetry Contest, too. It's not like most of us aren't already on some list(s) somewhere already.
Here is what the webhost wrote about the contest:
After reading Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don’t want the government spying on you, I had a great idea of how to illustrate the ridiculousness of our government in using simple “words” as justification for spying on the American people (and us sovereigns too). So I’m officially launching the “Online Terrorist Keywords” Poetry Contest!
Here’s how it works: Starting today, and ending 2 weeks from the posting of this announcement (that would be Tue. June 12th, at 9pm – EST) I’m asking all who are interested to write up a poem using a minimum of 50 words from the “government keywords” list (see photos below). Post your poem in the comments section of this post. Be sure to include a title! Once the contest is closed, I’ll repost all the entries and have open voting for 5 days. At the end of the voting, which ever “Terrorist Poem” is rated the highest will be used in an 11″ x 17″ poster that I will design, print, and send to the winner.
Some of the words supposedly intriguing to NSA are pork, cloud, and Mexico, btw.
So for fun
One of my families favorite recipes is vegetables in a cloud. I guess we could add pork and invite our Mexican neighbors.
BAM! In swoops the NSA bots to see what I mean by that, who did I say it to, is there a cloud pork Mexico pattern. What does it mean?
Where was I?
Oh yeah. Poetry NSA Humor
You can go to the website linked above to find the list of words that will AROUSE the NSA as well as read some of the poetry entries.
Also, twitter has a hashtag #OpTrollTheNSA
Oh my gosh, there are a LOT of very funny people on twitter. Check it out.
I hope we won't all be laughing on our way to GITMO.
In other NSA news
On Wednesday, June 12
Anonymous hacker trolls NSA with ‘keywords of terror,’ disables website
An anonymous hacker disables the National Security Agency’s website and trolls their “impressive surveillance apparatus” with “keywords of terror” as part of Operation Troll the NSA (#OpTrollTheNSA).
Softpedia also reports “hackers of the St0rmyw0rm group leaked a file in which they claim contains the email addresses of over 400 individuals that work for the NSA.”
OccupyWallStreet news is still going strong
OWS even had a Reclaim Zucotti Park reunion a couple of weeks ago. Funny, Fox News didn't mention this.
I think state of emergency would be a horrible name for a 51st state.
#OpTrollTheNSA - (from twitter)