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ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online (theintercept.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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ICE wants to hire contractors to monitor social media for threats. Those who criticize the agency could be pulled into the dragnet.

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[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

My guess is it'll be the other way around. Someone kills an ICE person and when they get support online they'll use it as an excuse of "they're supporting a terrorist! Terrorism is illegal!"