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“Pre-Crime” is taking action BEFORE a crime is committed:
New Documents Show the FBI Implemented Nationwide Social Media Monitoring Ahead of the 2022 Midterms
Fast Key points:
--FBI ordered social media companies to save user data on targeted political individuals, even though no crime had been committed
--Goal was to “maintain relevant user information until legal actions could be formally initiated”
--America First Legal (AFL) initiated the lawsuit against the Biden-Harris administration FBI National Election Command Post (NECP)
--It had lists of social media accounts posting what they considered “misinformation,” extending from New York to San Francisco. This included the Right Side Broadcasting Network, cited by Matt Taibbi as targeted for “additional action” by the FBI
So we’re talking about pre-crime surveillance of political adversaries that are just sending messages they dislike. Many in the privacy space warned about pre-crime, ironically we were “pre-crime flagging the pre-crime” but now here it is:
Sources:
https://reclaimthenet.org/new-documents-show-the-fbi-implemented-nationwide-social-media-monitoring-ahead-of-the-2022-midtermsMatt Taibbi:
https://x.com/mtaibbi/status/1603857534737072128Published at
2024-08-13 13:37:24 UTCEvent JSON
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