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'''Political profiling''' is an activity certain "watchdog" organizations engage in on various [[computer]] bulletin boards, chat rooms and wikis.  An internet user's postings under either their real life identity of pseudonym may be "profiled" for their ideological convictions based upon editing patterns, interests, subject matter, common references or declared beliefs.  The profile is then pigeon-holed into predetermined character assessments published by the watchdog organizations.  Political profiling has been referred to as the rough equivalent of profiling all Black males on the grounds that a certain percentage may commit violent crimes. In the sense that targeting minorities for special surveillance is called “racial profiling,” the so-called "watchdog organizations" engage in "political profiling."  Some watchdog groups hold law enforcement conferences, seminars,  training  sessions, and publish manuals on this “profiling” behavior.  

'''Political profiling''' is an activity certain "watchdog" organizations engage in on various [[computer]] bulletin boards, chat rooms and wikis.  An internet user's postings under either their real life identity of pseudonym may be "profiled" for their ideological convictions based upon editing patterns, interests, subject matter, common references or declared beliefs.  The profile is then pigeonholed into predetermined character assessments published by the watchdog organizations.  Political profiling has been referred to as the rough equivalent of profiling all Black males on the grounds that a certain percentage may commit violent crimes. In the sense that targeting minorities for special surveillance is called “racial profiling,” the so-called "watchdog organizations" engage in "political profiling."  Some watchdog groups hold law enforcement conferences, seminars,  training  sessions, and publish manuals on this “profiling” behavior.  

==Introduction==

==Introduction==