Beware Thy Tweets!

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   paradigmsearchposted 12 years ago

   "A pair of U.K. tourists were arrested after landing in Los Angeles on terror charges after joking on Twitter they were going to ‘destroy America’ and ‘dig up Marilyn Monroe.’"
   
   http://beta.local.yahoo.com/news-touris … ing-tweets

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      Shinkickerposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Unbelievable. I had to check that it wasn't a spoof.

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   Disturbiaposted 12 years ago

   Yes it's a sad day when we can no longer make jokes without getting arrested.

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   lovemychrisposted 12 years ago

   In this day and age, everything must be taken seriously.
   
   When a person is so deranged as to kill your cat and scrawl "Liberal" on its belly....nothing can be taken for granted.
   
   The inmates are in charge of the asylum.

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   IzzyMposted 12 years ago

   See? Didn't I say the DHS were monitoring your tweets? You need to to watch what you say anywhere online, because it is all getting noted. Certain 'sensitive words' are being actively searched for. I can imagine that the words "destroy America" would set a few alarm bells ringing, but there are a whole lot more.

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   mega1posted 12 years ago

   TOURISTS  TERRORISTS - what's the difference!    people say the darnedest things!

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   Stacie Lposted 12 years ago

   so saying something like "da bomb" would cause me to be watched?

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      IzzyMposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      The words "drill" and "strain" will get you watched!
      
      Full list at the bottom of this document here - http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/priv … update.pdf
      
      I thought it quite an ingenious way of attracting traffic to hubs and wrote a hub about it
      
      Now you know the buzzwords for getting (perhaps unwanted) traffic!

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         paradigmsearchposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         The thought crossed my mind to post that list here, but I wont.

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         Shanna11posted 12 years agoin reply to this

         LOL! I'm endlessly amused that the word 'mexicle' is on that list.
         
         Edit: So I googled it, and while it is the gross Mexican treat I thought it was, it's also a gang! I can understand why it's on the list now, but the word is just so funny!

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            IzzyMposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            I had no idea that mexicle was even a word! I thought it was maybe a code-word for something! Din't think to Google it....lol

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      manlypoetrymanposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      OOPs....Now ya' went and did it!
      
      

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   mega1posted 12 years ago

   it probably all depends on WHO are these watchers?  what kind of minds do they have?  are they McCarthy types? or what?  We need to find out, because I don't like their humorless world (remembering the horror stories of the 50s now)

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      debugsposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I think that some Twitters are taken "seriously". It all depends on one's Klout and digital reputation.

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         mega1posted 12 years agoin reply to this

         haha  I know I'm not considered a threat - I have, I think, 12 twitter followers!

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