Blacks, Hispanics, Social Media, the Mobile Phone Industry, and The Connection To Government Surveillance
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Posted By: Juan Davis on July 15, 2010 Good investigative work by Lauren Delisa Coleman of Punch Media Group has shown that the use of mobile phones and social media sites by Blacks and Hispanics has been the driving force for the profits of telecommunications companies. As a result of her finding that minorities use cellphones and access social networking sites from their phones more than Whites, it should be concluded that this demographic is the target of a post 9/11 surveillance tool capable of peering into the most private aspects of their lives. The U.S. surveillance industrial complex possesses a little known database called Main Core that is so large and so powerful it can instantly process and retrieve the most intimate aspects and details of the lives of American citizens. Main Core is also able to utilize extremely sophisticated artificial intelligence capabilities to actually predict likely patterns of future behavior. Such a huge database would be able to use cutting edge technology that is largely funded by taxpayer dollars and awarded to unaccountable private corporations through the typical business as usual, crony capitalist no bid contracts to create the most invasive tool of oppression this country has ever seen. This database would rely on software that was capable of performing highly sophisticated forms of social network analysis based on block modeling technology in order to monitor all forms of electronic communications including telephone, email, chat, Twitter and cell phones and personal digital assistants, satellite navigation systems, all internet searches, all credit card transactions, all book purchases, all grocery or other store purchases, all travel arrangements, all library records, utility usage, all bank activity, even to what is watched or listened to as entertainment in all American homes. Main Core would then be able to use the data to not only find links between persons who already know and interact with each other but to categorize each individual into a particular group that possess similar behavioral and purchasing habits. These groups could then be further divided into subgroups and further analyzed in order to determine under some loosely defined and largely unknown guidelines whether they could potentially represent a threat. For example, if you are selling a bicycle and you run an advertisement in your local newspaper, on Craig’s List, or some other internet board and you just happen to receive a call from a Muhammad who is interested in buying your bicycle. If this Muhammad happens to have certain friends who may have relationships with an organization that is determined by some unknown criteria to be a potential terrorist organization, with the surveillance capability of Main Core and with the resources of massive bureaucracies at the NSA and the Department of Homeland Security, such an innocent contact would set off a series of red flags that would categorize the conversation as sufficiently suspicious to merit further examination. The call that you received from Muhammad would then in all likelihood place you in the requisite database and subject you to an increased level of scrutiny by government watchdog systems and any number of unaccountable private intelligence firms. These are institutions with the power to then take control of your banking account (in an action that could be justified as prevention of the flow of funds to ‘terrorists’) and further monitor your own network of family, friends, acquaintances and co-workers who also could be subjected to being defined loosely as potential ‘terrorism’ sympathizers. At worst your life could become a nightmare of abduction, indefinite detention without access to the U.S. legal system, mental abuse, torture and perhaps eventually murder. The system is in place primarily because the events of 9/11 have been used as the excuse for expansion of police state powers, and our government over the past two administrations has rendered habeas corpus irrelevant, codified torture and warrantless wiretapping and created a network of secret prisons. The underlying concept that is behind Guantanamo Bay prison is to create a legal black hole into which even American citizens can be thrust into under the guise of being “enemy combatants” or the even more sinister “enemy belligerents” as proposed in the new John McCain-Joseph Lieberman civil liberty destroying Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010. But the situation is far more sinister......Read the full article at http://manageableants.blogspot.com/2010/04... If you enjoyed this article, Join HBCU CONNECT today for similar content and opportunities via email! |
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Juan Davis
From Louisville, KY University of Louisville class of 1984 Member Since November 2007 |
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