Every single tweet being turned over to U.S. government

[Created4]

According to Federal News Radio earlier this week, Twitter has struck a deal (deal?) with the Library of Congress to archive every single tweet. Rather than treat them as free, protected speech, the billions of Tweets are being treated as historical documents and will be archived as such, the report said.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/034356_tweets_surveillance_government.html

[Athan]

Well, I don't tweet, but I guess there is no point for me to do it in the future.

[ninepointfive]

Pretty sure they already story any and all communications anyways.

[Rael]

You have to be careful what you do online. Something you said online on Twatter ten years ago might cause you to lose or be denied a job, be used against you in court, etc.

[liberty2897]

Pretty sure they already story any and all communications anyways.

Just had my cellphone drop calls multiple times every time someone (on either side) said the words Iranian or Quran during the conversation. Coincidence? Could it be dropping calls during the switch to "record mode"? No, I'm not a terrorist. I was discussing theology and diversity with a friend that works at a university. Nothing to do with politics.

Okay, sounds paranoid. After the recent NDAA vote combined with this news:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?336308-Obama-Administration-Launches-Major-Anti-terror-Propaganda-Offensive

I have to wonder... Will Ron Paul supporters be discussing politics in detention camps before too long?

[MRK]

The Library of Congress already announced that it would begin archiving all tweets ever sent since over a year ago or so. In that sense this is not a surprise. Additionally this is not a surprise given that public tweets could already be archived by anyone's web crawlers. For example Google undoubtedly had them already, and would have been willing to hand over a neatly pressed database for the government for the right price like they do with everything else.

[Inny Binny]

Does it really matter? Everything on the internet is public. It'd be as if there was video surveillance everywhere...except all the cameras were owned by private individuals, and were broadcasting live to everyone. If you post something on Twitter, you kind of should expect it to be all over the place, whether it's archive.org or the government.

[ZanZibar]

Here is the full story:

http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2010/10-081.html