The Biden administration appears poised to increase internet surveillance in response to the leaked Pentagon documents that appear to have been posted on the messaging platform Discord.
NBC News reported on Wednesday that the administration was looking at expanding how it monitors social media sites and chat rooms.
The report cited an unnamed senior administration official and a congressional official who said the administration wants to “expand the universe” of social media sites that US law enforcement and intelligence agencies monitor.
According to the congressional source, the report said the “intelligence community is now grappling with how it can scrub platforms like Discord in search of relevant material to avoid a similar leak in the future.”
According to The Washington Post, the top secret documents were posted on a private Discord server that a member later posted on public servers in March. The documents have been circulating on the internet since then and were discovered by The New York Times last week.
Expanding internet surveillance is just one way the Biden administration is considering responding to the Discord leak. Internally, the Pentagon has reportedly tightened control of classified material and is looking at other steps to take.
On Thursday, the FBI arrested a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman in Massachusetts who is suspected of being the leaker.
We live in a surveillance society, globally. It feels like an invisible prison.
Yea…. https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/04/gary-d-barnett/extreme-censorship-of-truth-by-fascist-government-and-private-partnerships-a-death-warrant-to-freedom/
Thank you Bill, very much. I read Rockwell a lot and enjoy the wise folks over there.
More surveillance is so much easier than simply finding the leak and close it, Uncle Joe thinks so, and he knows what is best, or Nuland whispered it in his ear.
That is not likely to improve his election chances anyway, I don’t think.
I certainly hope you are right Renate, I do.
And now we see the point of the leaks.
Some day,will we wear the same clothing style, with a badge pinned to our coats with our number, then, when we enter our home, which has 24/7 video surveillance, approach a screen, where we will show our badge, empty our pockets, then get ready for the grand assembly to chant, “I LOVE BIG BROTHER, I LOVE BIG BROTHER, I LOVE BIG BROTHER!”It will make us safe.
Crikey! It is a bit early in the day for BBL (big brother love)!
It will be time to quit the Internet for good soon. At least if you have any unorthodox opinions.
Nah ZM, it is the time to get active and prepare for the war against those who want to limit our civil liberties.
Civil liberties are more important than pot, well, let us just say they complement each other!!!
Any moves to shut US down will cause a revolution. We just need to remind people that it is a real option.
Meh, f*ck ’em…
Hold on there’s a knock at the door, brb.
I sense carrier pigeons will become popular once again.
Smoke signals
Oh that is wonderful! Hopefully they will monitor all of us here at antiwar.com and they will know how we feel about their war plans.
Dear President Bye-done: I’m flipping you the bird! (and I am getting stoned while I do it, ya putz!)
Inhale………………………………………………………………………………..
Ok, fuck the gloom, pass the bong!
Black Gorrila (cherry pie x GG#4) has just been chopped and is in mine…..
I’m doing Gorilla Glue presently.
lol
Alas my GG#4 mother plant died but miss Cookie Glue, Black Gorilla live (30%ers) and the newest girl Gorilla Chip (32%) has been cloned and will be chopped soon.
But a GG#4 hernied and pollinated CG’s and BG’s in a full tent and that will be a interesting cross and a fun journey to find a Mommy to clone.
I do Fem seeds only. No room for a mother plant. Haven’t gotten my hands on anything over 25%. But that’s plenty. 😉
I do mothers plants in a tent that I make clones from then veg until rooted under a 4 ft. 8 bulb c5. Then fill 3×3’s with them in 7 rows by 7 of 3/4 gallon pots under quantum boards.
I basically grow Gorrilla crosses hence the high %’s. The newest (Gorilla Chip) promises 32% and it definitely hits it in the few early clones.
I’m lighting up for Peace ZaSu!
“Will”?
Oh you foolish young lady….lol.
This place organizes protests against the security state’s wars.
I’m sure all our words are being run through the naughty word/idea detection software on a constant basis.
Yes, the naughty word/idea detection: sh-t, p-ss off to all government a-holes.
We are already being monitored here at anti-war.com. And me too with the getting stoned and flipping numbnuts the bird part.
Wonderful wars, I feel in such good company!
dear, this is called antiwar blog. they started monitoring it the very moment that it started, and everyone who shows up here and comments and probably everybody who uses the Disqus comment system. and if you were to search on google for instructions on how to build a B-word device then uncle sam agents would be all over you. probably facebook etc is more than happy to turn over all of their inventory as well. i was told once that every microsoft computer has a back-door built in just for the NSA. notice that i did not type the actual B-word.
How multifaceted but of course, you are absolutely correct.
Good advice. Perhaps poor Jack T is going on the rack as an example to keep us in line.
“putz” Perv. More like it. 🙂
It’s a good thing this site is only monitored by very handsome, intelligent, and just swell government employees who only want the best for us……says no one….ef you guys!
“…of you guys” LOL good save there
EF you guys, right?…..F you guys, f-ck you guys….
Ef is correct or perhaps Mudder Fudding Mudder Fudders would be better? (I actually heard that one, uncleaned up, during a discussion of physics dealing with the String Theory or was it the Multi-verse theory?;-)
lol
oh ef you guys – i thought you said of you guys
That does work but we now know who swears more between the two of us, don’t we?
You need to use more naughty words in your daily life and you won’t make such a mistake again….mudder fudder
right. spy on this! you bastards
“grappling with how it can scrub platforms like Discord in search of relevant material to avoid a similar leak in the future.”
What does the word “scrub” mean in this setting? I mean, the fellow could have used “scrutinize” or “monitor” …
I’m sure all three words will apply as will many others like “criminalize” and “censor”
ORWELLIAN and dystopian.
Jimmy Dore’s must see clip on the upcoming war on China: https://youtu.be/m5uuIR4LgRI
Good catch.
We have actually turned into what we claim to hate and fight endless wars against! LOL!! Failed State for sure. What happens to the “leaders” of failed States?
Monitoring social sites… Well, that should be a raging success 😉 What a clumsy oaf Biden has shown himself to be.
Now LBJ could be crude and some might even say clumsy in a social Hyannis Port kind of way, but stupid? Clueless?
Nope.
This is a clown car, par excellence.
LBJ came up in rough and tumble politics in a tough state. He may have been a thug, but he knew what he was doing in the context of his thuggery.
Biden stumbled into the Senate as the youngest Senator ever, from an exceedingly minor state, where he remained for 30-odd years with no real attempts to unseat him, and just kind of continued stumbling upward into positions of “responsibility” and “leadership” due to “seniority.” Mistakes never came with a price tag for him. He’s basically the presidential personification of the Peter Principle.
He was always well qualified by virtue of being a compliant plutocrat servant.
Beat me to it, Thomas! The Peter Principle has been on my mind throughout this mess and much of what has led to it 😉 I recall the steady stream of gaffes allegedly issued to reveal his firm grasp of foreign policy.
Reveal: I admired Johnson and many of his contemporaries from both parties. They abided by the dictum: politics stops at the water’s edge. They played hardball, but managed to come together when it counted.
The “leak” is meant to increase support for the Restrict Act. Controlled opposition.
And they accuse the Chinese of spying on everyone , and all the NATO LACKEYS will toe the line so don`t expect the likes of the UK to make a protest about privacy .
“Biden Looking at Expanding Internet Surveillance After Discord Leaks The Biden administration wants to expand how it monitors social media sites and chat rooms”
Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, and now a real world dystopian non-fiction novel America 2023!
https://reedsy.com/discovery/blog/dystopian-novels
This surprises me. The U.S. government wants to use this incident as a pretext to carry out more surveillance on every day citizens. Who would have ever thought the federal government would do something like that. 😉
So to make sure the moronic masses hate the people who perpetrated the leaks?
And not turn them into Chelsea Manning’s or Edward Snowden’s?
They tell the public: ‘Well, thanks to these traitors? We are forced to spy on our own people far more than before. Don’t blame us…it’s all their fault.’
My guess is the NSA is LOVING the leaks and the opportunity for greater, domestic spyi – er – surveilla – er – monitoring that they have given them.