According to a new report, President Joe Biden’s administration will soon be teaming up with private companies to surveil service members. The intention of this action is to weed out members who have “concerning” views.
The Intercept reports: “An extremism steering committee led by Bishop Garrison, a senior adviser to the secretary of defense, is currently designing the social media screening pilot program, which will “continuously” monitor military personnel for “concerning behaviors,” according to a Pentagon briefing in late March.
Although in the past the military has balked at surveilling service members for extremist political views due to First Amendment protections, the pilot program will rely on a private surveillance firm in order to circumvent First Amendment restrictions on government monitoring, according to a senior Pentagon official. Though the firm has not yet been selected, the current front runner is Babel Street, a company that sells powerful surveillance tools including social media monitoring software.”......................
The report states that the Biden Administration will be searching for
keywords that they define as extremism. This is extremely dangerous
considering Democrats have a history of labeling anything having to do
with conservatism as “extremism.”....To Read More.....
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