Attention all Twitter (s) ~ The Feds are reading your Tweets...BEWARE...

Atlantic City, New Jersey
February 15, 2010 8:49am CST
Okay so I received an email alert this morning from a local new station and appartently due to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games...The FBI will be monitoring Twitter for "security" reasons. So please be careful not to tweet anything that may be misconstrued by them! Okay- does anyone else out there in mylot world think our (USA) government is taking it to far instilling fear in us for security reasons??? Does anyone else notice that everything they do, everything they monitor about us is "for our own safety". Does anyone else realize that in order to get our permission to do everything they do (i.e. Patriot Act) they will continue to instill fear in us...so there won't be a need to strip our rights from us- we will give them all up willing for the sake of "safety". Is anyone else scared our of their mind when they think about these things..or am I alone here??? Give me your input mylot..I'm really curious as to people opinions and input on this subject.
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@gwoman2 (710)
• United States
15 Feb 10
OMG...No you did not!! myLotters, this is what I live with!! ~G~
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@gwoman2 (710)
• United States
15 Feb 10
Although Warmie, U kinda got me right? This is soooooooooooo scary...Geezzzzzzz!!
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• Atlantic City, New Jersey
15 Feb 10
Oh yes I did mama...and my TRUE mylotter friends know this about me...so this discussion does not surprise them at all...LOL. Instead of saying no I didn't...why don't you tell our fellow mylotters how what I have been saying used to sound crazy to you...UNTIL..I broke it down..now you even believe there is something terribly wrong with the way we allow this country to be run. Lets always remember..our constituion states...WE THE PEOPLE- not we the government will tell you what to do!!!!!!
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@rebelmel (1386)
• United States
16 Feb 10
I think they only have the right to read the public tweets. If your twitter account is private and you need to approve someone to follow you, chances are they will not be able to read your tweets unless they have a warrant from a judge to do so. There are a lot of companies that monitor our tweets, too, not just the government. Have you ever noticed that sometimes after you tweet about a specific product, that company will add you to their following list? It's happened to me a bunch of times. They aren't reading the whole tweets, just searching for recent keywords.
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• Atlantic City, New Jersey
16 Feb 10
Hey rebelmel, Good point in bringing up the product marketing that takes place on twitter. I had forgotten about that. Although I have nothing to hide..I just don't see the need for the feds to be monitoring twitter- I mean do they really believe the terrorists (if there are any) are actually going to tweet before they blow something up at the olympics???..I mean be serious. I just don't like the fact that they use this excuse to instill fear in the american people so we will welcome the invasion of privacy rather than fight against it.
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@polachicago (18716)
• United States
15 Feb 10
I am not shocked or surprised. They have an eye on everything. Facebook has already bad reputation for many reasons. Social networks are the easy way for terrorism financing. We have to be aware of it and prevent in order to keep us safe.
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@skysuccess (8858)
• Singapore
16 Feb 10
warmweatherwoman, I think you cannot blame them for trying to do their jobs here and that people ought to know what they should say or not say be it in their spoken words or writings. I do not blame the Feds here when I see so many issues against terrorists, political dissidents and mass killers. It will be difficult to weed our the actual perpetrators if all of us become wannabes on the net. Why would anyone in the right frame of mind and civility want to write about support to some extremist movements or groups or support the ideology of some holy grail war? We should be responsible and morally inclined at all times and even when we are twittering!
• Atlantic City, New Jersey
16 Feb 10
But that is just it skysuccess...you cannot beleive everything that is told to you on the tv. How are we to be sure there are as many terrorists threats as they claim. I mean look at the fiasco with searching for the supposed weapons of mass destruction. Look at the relationship Bush Sr. had with the Bin Laden family before Bin Laden was accused of bringing down the World Trade Centers. Look at the financial aspect of it. The Bin Laden family contributed a very large amount of money to Bush Sr. presidential campaign....there is too much that is being hidden that makes me feel convinced that the only terrorists are those found sitting on the hill here in Washington!
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• Atlantic City, New Jersey
16 Feb 10
I can definitley agree that it has to stop, but in order to do so, we must begin by pointing the finger at those that are actually at fault.
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• Singapore
16 Feb 10
warmweatherwoman, Well, to be fair - media press or no media press, I believe that all of us need to start off somewhere. I mean so be it, you know - better that there's some form of warning that you'd be picked up for an interesting "black coffee" session for what you had just bleep and blabbed than nothing at all. I understand how you feel about the hyped and doctored accounts of past administrations but we need to see it as past history. On the hindsight, I think you need to admit that all that unlimited freedom had a very heavy price tag starting with 911 and it just has to stop. Better now than never, if you know what I mean.
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@dhonitea (157)
• Indonesia
15 Feb 10
I am not surprise to hear that. I think the FBI is not important to monitoring the tweets..If the reason only "security" that is only joke. I think everyone in the world that have acount the twitter will not agree to do that because it only social networking and chat.
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@pandaeyes (2065)
15 Feb 10
how very strange well I hope they like my tweets about my skipping rope workouts HEHE! In the UK they are quite strict about security too. I don't know about reading twitter but we have CCTV everywhere. I can think of at least 5 cameras between here and town (20 minutes walk away). My kids went back to university by airplane and they had to take their shoes off,empty out their bags and my daughter had to put her make up in a plastic bag. I don't know if that is normal procedure but they were only flying up the length of the country. WE are still being sold on identity cards here which are supposedly for our safety but think more to do with controlling the population than anything else. They say it will reduce fraud as people will have it all on their cards but to me that is going to make it even easier to steal identities not harder.
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• United States
18 Feb 10
Nope, not one bit. I never do anything, so I have nothing to fear. This is just like when Cricket Cell Phone Service first came to Cincinnati. Everyone was talking about how this service was run by the FBI, and they are listening to everyone's conversation. I still ended up switching to their service because it was cheaper than the I-wireless service I had. When people told me personally about the FBI, I just told them, "Well, whoever's assigned to my line is going to be pretty bored!" The fact of the matter is, no cell phone or even landline is safe from being listened to, because the FBI has technology to tap into both. And anything you post online is viewable by everyone in the world that lands on it, including the authorities. So you should always act as though people are listening or reading, and this way you have nothing to be afraid of.