Forum Post: THE GOVERNMENT is saving all your tweets..... forever
Posted 12 years ago on Dec. 8, 2011, 7:54 p.m. EST by theaveng
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The Library of Congress and Twitter have signed an agreement that will see an archive of every public Tweet ever sent handed over to the library's repository of historical documents.
Sounds similar to how East Germany tracked everyone. (They also collected blood samples of every citizen.) And people wonder why I hate corporations, but don't fear them. I reserve my fear for the government since their power is so invasive and all-encompassing.
Hey, the Feds are probably keeping all the posts and threads from this website as well. And they've been gathering DNA samples from American citizens for a number of years now. What a world we live in, eh?
Yeah it sucks.
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What amazes me is so many people don't think this is a potential problem, as evidenced by some of the comments below. Far too many US citizens haven't a clue about what really goes on behind the closed doors in DC.
The only problem I have is context. A tweet may make perfect sense at the time and moment it was posted, but ten years later it can have an entirely different scope and feel to it when revisited for whatever purpose.
As long as they keep records on themselves too. Let the truth ring.
But the government won't release those records, and they are trying to prosecute anybody (wikileaks) who tries to reveal the hidden documents that the People deserve to know. (Such as that video where US soldiers were using journalists and children as target practice.)
Do you know why wikileaks has run out of money? Because the government no longer allows us to give them donations. The Obama administration is blocking our credit transactions.
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good for them; they may finally learn something about reciprocity.
maybe I'll tweet some of my poems.
I don't mind the Library of Congress collecting information - it will be valuable to historians of the future - if there is a future after the ice caps disapper . . .
What I object to is private industry harvesting our purchasing habits.
When do you purchase
What do you purchase
I could show you how to fuck someone up with that kind of data
I fear that the information could be misused by a future president, in order to round-up people, than the melting of the icecaps.
you're insane.
I haven't been rounded up yet.
A significant change in weather temps and patterns may well mean you won't get to eat.
Apparently you've forgotten about the Americans who were rounded-up and put into concentration camps only 6 decades ago. The president and Congress took their homes, their land, and their savings without due process of law.
If it happened once it can happen again. Just look at the history of any Republic after it falls to a dictatorial president, king, or Caesar. They can ue the information stored in the Tweet archive toprosecute which ever group the decide to label the "enemy"
Why do you think the Senate just passed a bill to "indefinitely detain" Americans who they don't like.
No, I haven't forgotten.
And I haven't forgotten that GitMo is still open, and that NYC declined to prosecute September 11 perps ostensibly because of the expense - which essentially put the brakes on the Presidents efforts to close it.
You're insane.
end of story.
It is not logical to trust a government with your information when you are aware that the government routinely mistreats/jails its own citizens. I would call that insane.
I trust the government implicitly - to be only as corrupt as the people will allow.
But as a thinking society, we as a nation and as people look back on that and slavery and KNOW what atrocities they were. Neither would ever happen again. Man, this site attracts some extremists.
Can pictures be tweeted?