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Is big government and social media colluding against private citizens?

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  Thanks to  NSA Whistleblowers Edward Snowden Americans are at least aware of much of the police state reminiscent of George Orwell's 1984 classic.  Local police departments are using software developed by a CIA-funded company to monitor citizens’ social media posts and their physical locations in real time 24 hours a day. Homeland Security has fake cell phone towers which are portable and drive in front of your home and download everything you have on your laptops, cell phones, etc. The FBI has for decades used surveillance and racial profiling to target Muslims, immigrants, people of color, activists in general, and Black activists in particular. AFSC itself has a substantial FBI file,” added Zerkel. “Mass data collection tools will only serve to further criminalize protests and free speech, and expand the criminalization of Muslims and people of color. The FBI has “dirt boxes” set up on Cessnas which fly around areas wholesale collecting data on private citizens. Journalists wo