Thread: FBI and Homeland security sieze 150 domains.

I'm sure they'll justify it by babbling something about the proceeds being used to possibly fund terrorism etc.

On an unrelated note, the smallish city of ~50k residents that I grew up in just announced that they're going to install espionage cameras in their downtown area so that they can continuously monitor the public and turn the area into a police state. I have a hard time believing that the video feeds won't somehow be (or become) connected to a federal monitoring agency.

I am really not liking the direction this country is heading.

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The Senate is set to vote on a bill today that would define the whole of the United States as a “battlefield” and allow the U.S. Military to arrest American citizens in their own back yard without charge or trial.

I'm pretty sure they're already using drones over the US-Mexico border. But yeah flying over mainland USA just to keep an eye on the domain of civilian law enforcement would be a bit different.

They installed traffic cameras in my nearest big city several years ago. I've rarely visited the city since then, and I try to avoid going there as much as possible. I feel as though I'm being stalked by a predator every time I visit there.

Why do these game companies get special enforcement meanwhile people in say the adult industry get no such assistance whatsoever. What are the odds that we will ever see "Feds seize Xhamster.com domain due to piracy"?

AmateurFlix, I bet they are going to be used in part for that too. I think pretty much anything in the country can be tapped into by the feds with a varying degree of ease and/or legal force. I recall the story of the monitoring station in an AT&T office for secret use by federal authorities to eavesdrop without a warrant. As well as the story of backdoors reportedly being planted in OpenBSD for use by the feds.

the gaming industry makes even more money than the movie industry if I'm not mistaken.
profits = lobbying $ = attention from politicians = someone sets priorities for law enforcement.

there's no money in porn
small profits = not enough lobbying $ = no attention from politicians = someone sets other priorities for law enforcement.

Originally Posted by AmateurFlix

On an unrelated note, the smallish city of ~50k residents that I grew up in just announced that they're going to install espionage cameras in their downtown area so that they can continuously monitor the public and turn the area into a police state. I have a hard time believing that the video feeds won't somehow be (or become) connected to a federal monitoring agency.

Welcome to 12-14 years ago in Florida where it started with a few cameras at the most dangerous intersections to catch people drinking behind the wheel. Now we have cameras across the state tracking us from within the cities and all along the highways and expressways. We often get traffic, weather and other news updates where the News stations are tapped into what they basically call traffic cams. There are even sites online where the average stalker can actually monitor some of these cameras.

TrafficLand.com - Traffic Cameras, Traffic Video, Live Traffic Cams

We even have radar's all along the major roadways which are not actually used to trap or ticket anyone. My best guess is they are currently used for statistical tracking purposes and special tasks. But say you have a fugitive you want to catch it's much easier to calculate travel distance once flagged by a camera based on speed so you can put a road block far enough ahead.

Nobody really cares when the government is hard at work building the beast to supposedly "protect and serve" the interests of we people. What we can see on the outside however is a just a small taste of what the system can see which does not include all the inner city cameras with facial tracking capability. Most all of the cameras are setup to track tags as do many of those found inside police vehicles. If you watch the reality show Parking Wars they also use similar technology as law enforcement to scan tags as they drive around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA5Gy32aqdo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjUZ7g_CkDU

This means anyone who enters or leave the state of Florida has a 99.999% chance of being tagged by a central database. We don't think about it but even as you travel from store to store those cameras are linked to central networks. If the government wants to watch you they can monitor everything you do right down to the brand of toilet paper you purchase in Walmart. And when and if you manage to step off the grid they have satellites that can hunt you down anywhere in the world and possibly even on other planets.

Every state has a site to use as a public face somewhere which of course is not a true representation of what it really going on inside the beast. It shows just how many hundreds of cameras we have although it's no big secret to those who see the cameras everywhere they go. Whats even more interesting is this public site says most of the inner city cameras are non streaming but that is totally untrue because i've watched the streams elsewhere.

Florida's 511 Traveler Information System | Traffic

Originally Posted by AmateurFlix

Here's someting else I'm sure you'll enjoy </sarcasm> Senate Moves To Allow Military To Intern Americans Without Trial Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

Originally Posted by NobleSavage

That is some scary shit.

The bill passed. There's a petition to request it be vetoed: Ask Obama To Veto Indefinite Military Detention of AMERICAN CITIZENS | Demand Progress

Petition and you go on the watch list.

Originally Posted by toker

Petition and you go on the watch list.

They can blow me.

You can say that now but wait till you try to board an airplane or buy an assault rifle.

Originally Posted by NobleSavage

I predict that in the future not only will we have cameras watching us everywhere we go, but also drones keeping an eye on the population.

Already being done in London.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/ja...ce-plan-drones
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...m-6267107.html