Not The Onion @lemmy.world NightOwl @lemmy.ca 4 days ago

Pentagon Alarmed by Taylor Swift Tweets

gizmodo.com Pentagon Alarmed by Taylor Swift Tweets

Swifties are under surveillance, just like the rest of us.

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This story became much less interesting after I realized they were worried about tweets about Taylor Swift, not tweets made by Taylor Swift.
- As upset as some people get when posters read a headline then go straight to the comments... this shit is why that happens. Headline caught my interest, but now I gotta hit the comments to assess whether the headline has some degree of journalistic integrity, or if it's just clickbait bullshit... and by the time that assessment is done, it can be hard not to be already invested in and engaging with the comments xD
  
  I just go right to the comments. Often they point out the flaws much quicker than me reading bot generated articles. It's not flawless but works 99% of the time.
  
  Preach, brosisperson. That's where many of us were at least once.
- a third player has connected
- Really do we not expect governments to be reading publicly available information that's put out on social media? They would have to be inept to pass that up.
The report found that there was “considerable anxiety among social media users” after the cancellation of several Swift concerts earlier this month. Those concerts were scheduled to be held in Vienna but were canceled after threats from alleged would-be terrorists. A number of young men were arrested in connection to an apparent plot to kill people en masse. The suspects had allegedly planned to detonate explosive devices at the concerts.

Fair
- Imagine just being a super megastar musician, and people want to use your popularity to kill your fans. You're not even the target per se. You just gather a large crowd, and the crowd is the target. Still though, your life is in danger simply for existing.
  
  I'm not even a Taylor Swift fan. I just see her as human, the same way I see the crowd as human.
  
  Not specifically Taylor Swift fans:
  
  Women.
  
  They want to kill women.
  
  And some kids were killed at a Taylor Swift themed dance class in the UK very recently. I'm not a fan of her myself, but I can really sympathize with how gut-wrenching that must be.
“A considerable number of netizens..."

1996 called...
- These netizens reading those e-zines on their pocket computers while listening to shoutcasts…
  
  shoutcasts…
  
  Shoutcast was probably the coolest thing I ever ran on my little P75 I have to admit. I thought it was damn amazing. Can we talk about iomega zip drives and the click of death now too!!? (Kinda enjoying the nostalgia...)
- well tell them I want my red power ranger motorbike back
Given the amount of internet fuckery that happened in the 2016 election, I’m not surprised that the Pentagon is monitoring everything going on in the Internet. I’m not sure what they can do about it in most cases, but I guess it helps to keep tabs.
- We've known that the NSA stores everything they can get their hands on for more than a decade. It's one of those things we just pretend isn't still happening.
  
  I really should stop worrying about data backup. Why pay for it?
- During the Civil War, Lincoln had every telegraph line in the country routed though the White House. Wild Wild West the movie didn't do the ops history justice, but was close, and it was fiction.
  
  SMH my head, if not even Wild Wild West is historically accurate, then who can we even trust anymore?
I don't want to live in this realm any longer. Can I switch to the upside-down or something??
DOD’s job is to defend the USA. Taylor Swift is a major asset of the USA.
- Or, if you read the article, you would know that it's more about the threat of terrorism, which recently led her to cancel some concerts.
- Is she going to be in CiVII? Does someone's uncle work with Sid Meier?
- They‘re protecting billionaires first and foremost and she is a billionaire.
  
  She is an American citizen
Oh no, the nepo-baby got insulted.

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