Infringed Again: Police to Partner with FaceBook to Prevent Protest Organization [Video]

Posted by: Michelle Wright Posted date: October 29, 2013




Organizing protests or rallying the troops through FaceBook or other social media outlets may quickly become a thing of the past if law enforcement has anything to say about it. Apparently recent protests have the boys in blue worried about how efficient the social media giant is for gathering the masses. A Philadelphia convention last week pressed for allowing officers to keep anything they deemed criminal off the internet, this included stopping people from organizing protests. So now your 1st amendment right is a criminal act?



A high-ranking official from the Chicago Police Department told attendees at a law enforcement conference on Monday that his agency has been working with a security chief at Facebook to block certain users from the site “if it is determined they have posted what is deemed criminal content,” reports Kenneth Lipp, an independent journalist who attended the lecture.
Lipp reported throughout the week from the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference, and now says that a speaker during one of the presentations suggested that a relationship exists between law enforcement and social media that that could be considered a form of censorship.
According to Lipp, the unnamed CPD officer said specifically that his agency was working with Facebook to block users’ by their individual account, IP address or device, such as a cell phone or computer. – RTNews




“Is Facebook really working with the police to create a kill switch to stop activists from using the website to mobilize support for political demonstrations?” the PrivacySOS blog asked. “How would such a switch function? Would Facebook, which reportedly hands over our data to government agencies at no cost, block users from posting on its website simply because the police ask them to? The company has been criticized before for blocking environmentalist and anti-GMO activists from posting, but Facebook said those were mistakes. Let’s hope this is a misunderstanding, too.”

“95.9 percent of law enforcement agencies use social media, 86.1 percent for investigative purposes,” Lipp quoted from the head of the social media group for the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

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