I am so FUCKING glad my words here are not going into a gigantic filter that someone will use

[cherokeeprogressive]

to determine whether or not I'm a threat to national security.

Wait... Are my words being filtered as I type them?

Of course not!

That kind of surveillance stopped on 1/20, right? Right!

[rcrush]

1. I love Anthrax!

Man Anthrax is so great. Potters Field was a great album.

[juno jones]

8. Ahem, testing, 1,2,3,... Al Qaida

*tap, tap* Detonator, peace, morning-after pill...

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Reading a public forum is hardly 'surveillance'

Unless you regard Google and dozens of other search engines as surveillance outfits.

[Syrinx]

3. what the NSA is alleged to be doing is most definitely illegal surveillance

Cataloging personal, private telephone and internet traffic, and cross-indexing it with various other kinds of information such as credit card transactions, magazine subscriptions, etc., of every American citizen, with a special focus on journalists. If true, it is very serious business indeed.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Exactly - private traffic is very different from a forum *designed* to be available to everyone

Our words on DU are meant to be available to all, including all governments in the world. People here actually say "hey - it looks like someone is listening!" when something good happens.

[Syrinx]

7. I literally agree with you

But among the implications are that what you write on an "anonymous" message board can be held against you. That the O T B are in charge of dossiers.

What me worry?

[sohndrsmith]

5. I wouldn't assume that, no. n/t

[mmonk]

6. Ask Jane Harman.