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Now, this is a situation to go postal about.
The response to this doesn’t require a deep dive. The post office has no business monitoring social media posts. None whatsoever. Not even close. The job of the post office is to deliver letters, not to do domestic intelligence.
Yet, according to Yahoo, “The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as ‘inflammatory’ postings and then sharing that information across government agencies.”
This is outrageous. This is unacceptable. This is a time when a cliche actually fits: This is Orwell’s Big Brother come to life. This is government tracking without probable cause
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