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Ah, so people aren't given personal FBI agents, but actually it's a team of people from EIP subcontracted by the DHS.Hello dear DHS goon reading this! Have you considered one of your compatriots may be performing a Snowden as we speak? https://t.co/QmWPPaJC82
Not sure what exactly is being lied to about here. Apparently the FBI aren't wasting their time and resources performing mass surveillance? I'm very confused.https://t.co/65jo6gJhHM
I mean, its one thing to fight against election fraud. Thats good. Please keep doing that. https://t.co/fcv9lAn8UG
Spending resources on a mandate to protect the sanctity of our democratic system is wonderful and I like it when the FBI is using their resources to protect us.Stuff like catching absentee ballots being stuffed in NY! this is good shit. https://t.co/zVHw8lnmk7
But something is very wrong with how this system is set up if the FBI is feeding joke tweets to twitter to be vetted.Hey, at least they're spending more money on contractors to better scan your tweets for this kind of stuff. https://t.co/1n8PdIAiZw
I'm kinda worried about this too. It feels bad to hear about all of this stuff with twitter being in bed with the FBI."real concerns based on the [FBI’s] history and based on the fact that we don't know how they're using it and who they're going after"https://t.co/URXVdrLq19
If what we are seeing is a bunch of tweets being collected based on reports of voter suppression that end up being jokes... It kinda doesn't look good.https://t.co/Pt4MJGl19U
Voter Suppression is a big problem.But is mass surveillance of social media and (the increasingly alarming) cooperation between government funded entities and private corporations a good solution?If outcome is joke tweets being reported, it feels like we're missing the mark.
The reality is that a large proportion of our population's trust was damaged by Snowden's revelations. That government institutions would hide their doings from public scrutiny? Sketch af. FBI/DHS building out a socialmedia dragnet *should* alarm everyone.https://t.co/2w32JQCueV
I'm literally autistic, so often sarcasm goes right over my head. But even I can see many of those tweets are jokes & benign.My most charitable take: Maybe FBI is using naïve crowdsourcing OSINT, so responding to brigades of people with too much time & not enough sense?
It's funny that everyone freaked out about the GOP stuffing mail in ballots when the FBI caught that guy, but I haven't seen a single person mention this one from 2015 where a democrat did the same for a local election. The FBI is investigating this too. https://t.co/xPlEMxlpPP
Voter Suppression itself is a loaded term as well. So its hard for me to tell what specifically FBI is meant to be policing here. From what I can tell, most of suppression is via state laws and confusion? Maybe that's why the jokes got filtered into this.https://t.co/11qAEwb3zC
I personally gave up on trying to vote. Here in Vermont you are required to have an ID when you register, but the fucking website was broken.https://t.co/CpJQSVfooR
This unsettles me."There is no logical reason, for example, why the FTC needs to know the identities of journalists engaging with Twitter." https://t.co/PkQWMqIIvY