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:*Red State: That Troubling Expansion of Capitol Police Gets Even Worse With Tech They Plan to Use.<ref>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/07/10/that-troubling-expansion-of-capitol-police-gets-even-worse-with-tech-they-plan-to-use-n409162</ref>
:*Red State: That Troubling Expansion of Capitol Police Gets Even Worse With Tech They Plan to Use.<ref>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/07/10/that-troubling-expansion-of-capitol-police-gets-even-worse-with-tech-they-plan-to-use-n409162</ref>
:*''Viva Barnes:'' Capitol Police.<ref>https://youtu.be/2OZvJWElwmo?t=6480</ref>
:*''Viva Barnes:'' Capitol Police.<ref>https://youtu.be/2OZvJWElwmo?t=6480</ref>
*'''26 July.''' Intelligence Branch and Big Tech Say The Quiet Part Out Loud – Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Google and Big Tech Writ Large Will Monitor Platforms and Report Extremist Content to FIVE EYES Intelligence Network.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/07/26/the-intelligence-branch-and-big-tech-say-the-quiet-part-out-loud-facebook-twitter-microsoft-google-and-big-tech-writ-large-will-monitor-platforms-and-report-extremist-content-to-five-eyes-intelli/</ref>
:*The biggest names in Big Tech announce they have partnered with the [[Five Eyes]] intelligence network, ultimately controlled by the NSA, to: ::*(1) monitor all activity in their platforms;
::*(2) identify extremist content;
::*(3) look for expressions of Domestic Violent Extremism (DVE); and then,
::*(4) put the content details into a database where the Five Eyes intelligence agencies ([[U.K.]], [[U.S.]], [[Australia]], [[Canada]], [[New Zealand]]) can access it.
:*[[Facebook]], [[Twitter]], [[Google]] and [[Microsoft]] are all partnering with the intelligence apparatus.
::*“The Group will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.”<ref>https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-facebook-tech-giants-target-manifestos-militias-database-2021-07-26/</ref>
::*who and what is defined as “extremist content” will be determined by the Big Tech insiders themselves. This provides a gateway, another plausible deniability aspect, to cover the Intelligence Branch from any oversight.
:::*When the Intelligence Branch within government wants to conduct surveillance and monitor American citizens, they run up against the problem of [[Fourth Amendment]] protections. They get around those legal limitations by sub-contracting the intelligence gathering, the actual data-mining, and allowing outside parties (contractors) to have access to the central database.
::*The government cannot conduct electronic searches (4th amendment issue) without a [[warrant]]; however, private individuals can search and report back as long as they have access. Big Tech will flag the content from within their platforms, and now a secondary database filled with the extracted information will be provided openly for the Intelligence Branch to exploit.
:::*The volume of metadata captured by the NSA has always been a problem because of the filters needed to make the targeting useful. There is a lot of noise in collecting all data that makes the parts you really want to identify more difficult to capture. This new admission puts a new massive filtration system in the metadata that circumvents any privacy protections for individuals.
:::*Previously, the Intelligence Branch worked around the constitutional and unlawful search issue by using resources that were not in the United States. A domestic U.S. agency, working on behalf of the U.S. government, cannot listen on your calls without a warrant. However, if the U.S. agency sub-contracts to say a Canadian group, or foreign ally, the privacy invasion is no longer legally restricted by U.S. law. What is being announced today is an alarming admission of a prior relationship along with open intent to define their domestic political opposition as extremists.
{{quotebox-float|''Reuters:'' "A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told Reuters.
Until now, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism’s (GIFCT) database has focused on videos and images from terrorist groups on a United Nations list and so has largely consisted of content from Islamist extremist organizations such as Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Over the next few months, the group will add attacker manifestos – often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence – and other publications and links flagged by U.N. initiative Tech Against Terrorism. It will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes, adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the [[Proud Boys]], the Three Percenters and [[neo-Nazi]]s.
The firms, which include Twitter (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube, share “hashes,” unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services. Other platforms use these to identify the same content on their own sites in order to review or remove it....<ref>https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-facebook-tech-giants-target-manifestos-militias-database-2021-07-26/</ref>}}
==See also==
==See also==