Homeland Security Internet Watch List leaked (w/link to list of sites)

[The Straight Story]

"This is a representative list of sites that the NOC will start to monitor in order to provide situational awareness and establish a common operating picture under this Initiative," the document reads.

Oh fine, so, the imminent Yeti invasion isn't something that needs to be monitored? The anal probe menace posed by illegal Martian invaders? No concerns about the toxicity of homemade sauerkraut as a biological weapon?

I mean, fucking MySpace and Hulu are on the list! Really? I'm surprised Friendster was omitted. And they're watching Flickr and YouTube and Huffpo! But our hard-hitting coverage of steampunk watches and DIY spaceships doesn't merit a click? Whatever, DHS. We don't want those ill-gotten clicks.

But there's still hope. "Initial sites listed may link to other sites not listed. The NOC may also monitor those sites if they are within the scope of this Initiative."

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/11/homeland-security-internet-wat.html

full list here:
http://cryptome.org/2012/01/0001.pdf

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Interesting list

Vimeo
Flickr ( but not photobucket??)

A LOT of Twitter and Twitter related sites.
( Thanks, Dept of Horse Shit, I had no idea some of these sites existed...bookmarking)

ABC News Blotter
( but no other news blogs???)

And HuffPo is just below

Homeland Security
& Homeland Security Watch sites.

Interesting collection of sites.

DU is NOT included.....

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. DU is still Agent Mike's personal project.

[Lawlbringer]

3. Thank God

They're keeping an eye on TruckingInfo.com, those guys are up to no good.

[jberryhill]

4. What sites do you read for news?

In case nobody has noticed, newspapers are disappearing.

If you have a better list of media that they should be reading in order to figure out what is going on in the world, then maybe you can suggest that list to them.

Maybe there's something I don't understand here, but the CIA used to employ a lot of people for no other purpose than reading newspapers.

Is there some problem with the government looking at various media sites for "situational awareness" - i.e. trying to figure out WTF is going on in the world?

[The Straight Story]

6. Here are a few

http://www.courthousenews.com/

http://www.allgov.com/

and this is on the list:
http://publicintelligence.net/

[jberryhill]

7. It was something of a rhetorical question....

The point being that the government is as entitled as you are to read what is on websites.

[The Straight Story]

9. Yeah, I know :)

And yes they are, of course, but doing so costs money (systems to analyze, record, track, etc) - it is worth the money?

[sabrina 1]

10. The CIA did more than 'read newspapers'

they influenced what newspapers wrote about the news. Surely you're not defending the government spying on its citizens by using the past, deplorable actions of the CIA? We're supposed to be making progress away from those dark practices of an agency that ought to be disbanded.

[jberryhill]

11. Yes they did

Was the guy who changed the sodas in the CIA cafeteria Coke machine up to no good?

Reading public websites in order to get some idea of what is going on in the world is not "spying".

Where do you think the president should get his news, Fox? CNN?

[woo me with science]

5. K&R

[dembotoz]

8. interesting list must admit i made a copy

and not having du on it is an obvious oversight