The US Postal Service is conducting covert operations on social media. Big Brother advances

22 April 20213 years ago babelfish

The United States Postal Service (USPS) police force quietly ran a program of tracking and collecting American social media posts, including those about planned protests by various groups.

The details of the surveillance effort, known as iCOP, or Internet Covert Operations Program, an acronym that plays on the word "COP," policeman, requires USPS analysts to analyze the places defined as "Provocers", track them and possibly report them to others federal agencies.

" Analysts from the Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP) of the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS, the US Postal Police Force) monitored significant activity related to the planned protests that took place internationally and domestically on March 20, 2021, ”states the government bulletin of March 16, marked as“ restricted to law enforcement ”and distributed through the Department of Homeland Security's merger centers. "Locations and times have been identified for these protests, which are distributed online across multiple social media platforms, to include right-wing accounts included in Parler and Telegram ."

A number of groups were supposed to gather in cities around the world on March 20 as part of a World Rally for Freedom and Democracy, to protest everything from blockade measures to 5G. “Parler users have commented on their intention to use the rallies to engage in violence. ", According to the bulletin. The rally on March 20, let's remember it was either a flop or a fake that, in reality, moved very few people and did not lead to significant damage or clashes.

So the "Big Brother" of social networks is approaching and with him the mass control of all people on social networks. What is even more dangerous is that a federal agency, because USPS and therefore USPIS are federal agencies, are concerned not so much with postal security as with monitoring American citizens. Even more worrying is the fact that the USPS appears to be acting with a political bias: why only follow right-wing accounts and talk? Why not deal with left-wing profiles, BLM, etc which are the ones who do the greatest devastation?

So the US government is profiling its citizens on social media. A situation that, even according to many US civil liberties experts, threatens the freedoms of individuals.

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