[governance] Caution on Twitter urged as tourists barred from US

[Aldo Matteucci]

Dear all,

this brings up my further worry in connection with"freedom of speech".
It is not just bad enough that governments are establishing
"good-citizenship ratings"
but that we'll never have access to the algorythms they use to come to
conclusions.
These algorythms are not accessible under The Bill of Rights - to my
knowledge
nor would I be albe to understand them,
and I suspect the HS's own experts don't understand them as they grow
complex.
A machine is in charge, mindless, all powerful.

HS is supposed to "connect the dots"
in this particular case there were no dots to connect - it was one sole,
solitary utterance, picked up in communication space,
probably uttered outside the US territory
and used to deny entry (without due process - you sign those away as you
fill in the grren slip on the airplane).

Stupidity is infinite

Aldfo

On 31 January 2012 19:59, Kerry Brown <kerry at kdbsystems.com> wrote:

> We'll have to disagree on this. I don't think monitoring public
> communications has any place in a free society. I know it happens. That
> doesn't mean I have to agree with or approve of it. It is too easily abused
> and it is too easily misinterpreted.
>
> Kerry Brown
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-
> > request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of Pranesh Prakash
> > Sent: January-31-12 10:48 AM
> > To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> > Subject: Re: [governance] Caution on Twitter urged as tourists barred
> from
> > US
> >
> > Kerry Brown [2012-01-31 22:23]:
> > > Why are the monitoring tweets in the first place?
> >
> > Because most people would, and very rightly so, accuse them of laxity and
> > dereliction of duty if they didn't.
> >
> > I have not seen a single cogent argument as to why they should not.  If
> it is
> > the duty of the immigration officers to prevent untoward foreigners from
> > entering the country, then they should use all public information at
> their
> > disposal, at the very least, to come to that conclusion.
> >
> > It is another matter whether Twitter banter should form the basis of
> their
> > opinions, but then you don't seem to be interested in that question.
> >
> > --
> > Pranesh Prakash
> > Programme Manager
> > Centre for Internet and Society
> > W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283
>
>
>
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