Dean Obeidallah
CNN
March 9, 2012
There were once seven words you couldn’t say on television, as the late comedy icon George Carlin famously lampooned 40 years ago.
Now it appears there are more than 500 words you shouldn’t say on Twitter or Facebook unless you want to be flagged by the Department of Homeland Security. There is a surveillance program the agency quietly began in February 2011 to monitor social media, according to the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
Documents obtained only after the privacy organization filed a lawsuit to enforce its Freedom of Information Act request reveal that anything you post on social-media websites such as Twitter and Facebook could come under review by the Department of Homeland Security, or at least by General Dynamics, the military defense contractor hired to implement the surveillance program.
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