Police to 'patrol' Facebook/Twitter

[TheLoneMadman]

I for one, welcome our new Orwellian overlords.

[TucoM]

Any terrorist network who communicates via social media deserves to get busted.

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........ ONE, EIGHT, SEVEN ON AN INTERNET COP!

[Crazywill]

I don't see why they hadn't done this before, honestly. Sure it seems like we are losing liberties, but you have to break eggs to make an omelet, right? In any case, it does seem as though it will only make criminals smarter. As that one guy pointed out in the thread below the article, all they have to do is speak another language, use a private chat, or go back to another method of information transfer. Sure the ISPs might get some, but a lot will slip through the meshes they weave to catch people.

Perhaps it will go to some kind of state mandated internet provider that reads every packet, or something. I don't know.

[Camarohusky]

If you make it public you might as well be writing it down and posting it on a telephone pole.

For those who think this is Orwellian or police state: Logic FAIL.

[Korriken]

the worst thing about this is that they publicly said they would do it. if you wanna catch the bad guy, you gotta can't tell him you're coming.

[Cootie]

At 10/12/12 10:14 PM, Crazywill wrote: I don't see why they hadn't done this before, honestly. Sure it seems like we are losing liberties, but you have to break eggs to make an omelet, right? In any case, it does seem as though it will only make criminals smarter. As that one guy pointed out in the thread below the article, all they have to do is speak another language, use a private chat, or go back to another method of information transfer. Sure the ISPs might get some, but a lot will slip through the meshes they weave to catch people.

Perhaps it will go to some kind of state mandated internet provider that reads every packet, or something. I don't know.

I do not agree with this "break a few eggs" thinking though. The government always wants to use fear of something to let us allow them to take more and more power. On some level I think they like the fact that we fear terrorist because it gives the government more and more power.

[Thecrazyman]

At 10/12/12 11:10 PM, Camarohusky wrote: If you make it public you might as well be writing it down and posting it on a telephone pole.

For those who think this is Orwellian or police state: Logic FAIL.

As what Benjamin Franklin will say "When you sacrifice Freedom for Security, you get neither". And I think that alone basically means that people need to learn to protect themselves more often from those who make good on there threats and not to those who actually make ill on there threats, a major difference between making good on one's threats and making ill on one's threats.

That said, if individuals like criminals and terrorist do make good on there threats, only then they should be dealt with and if make ill on there threats then it's more then likely the learned the lesson the easy way.

They might as well one day consider the idea of sending Bounty Hunters after such individuals who earned there way of having a Bounty Warrant on there names in the near future rather then have Police patrol Facebook and Twitter, again this is the reason why some nations must come to understanding that "When you sacrifice Freedom for Security, you get neither".

[Halberd]

I'm not surprised this happened in Europe it seems that some countries there such as the England take this shit too seriously like the guy who insulted some sports player on Twitter then he got arrested and he didn't even make any death threats or nothing and he was drunk

[Ericho]

Simple, just don't make any posts about terrorism. Besides, if you really wanted to do something nuts, just have everyone do it and the police won't be able to keep up or the jails will become so big, the nation's economy will become even worse than it already is. At least it's not as bad as when there were things like the government tapping into our phones.

[morefngdbs]

Anyone who thought the cops weren't already doing that is a simpleton.