Given the amount of internet fuckery that happened in the 2016 election, I’m not surprised that the Pentagon is monitoring everything going on in the Internet. I’m not sure what they can do about it in most cases, but I guess it helps to keep tabs.
We’ve known that the NSA stores everything they can get their hands on for more than a decade. It’s one of those things we just pretend isn’t still happening.
As upset as some people get when posters read a headline then go straight to the comments… this shit is why that happens. Headline caught my interest, but now I gotta hit the comments to assess whether the headline has some degree of journalistic integrity, or if it’s just clickbait bullshit… and by the time that assessment is done, it can be hard not to be already invested in and engaging with the comments xD
Really do we not expect governments to be reading publicly available information that’s put out on social media? They would have to be inept to pass that up.
The report found that there was “considerable anxiety among social media users” after the cancellation of several Swift concerts earlier this month. Those concerts were scheduled to be held in Vienna but were canceled after threats from alleged would-be terrorists. A number of young men were arrested in connection to an apparent plot to kill people en masse. The suspects had allegedly planned to detonate explosive devices at the concerts.
Imagine just being a super megastar musician, and people want to use your popularity to kill your fans. You’re not even the target per se. You just gather a large crowd, and the crowd is the target. Still though, your life is in danger simply for existing.
I’m not even a Taylor Swift fan. I just see her as human, the same way I see the crowd as human.