Do you blame other users or the NSA for deleting your YA questions and answers?

Question

Which companies are in the scheme?
Microsoft was the first to be included, in September 2007. Yahoo followed in March 2008, Google in January 2009, Facebook in June 2009, Paltalk, a Windows- and mobile-based chat program, in December 2009, YouTube in September 2010, Skype in February 2011 (before its acquisition by Microsoft), AOL in March 2011 and finally Apple in October 2012.

What data is being monitored?
Potentially, everything. The PowerPoint slide about Prism says it can collect "email, chat (video, voice), videos, photos, stored data, VoIP [internet phone calls], file transfers, video conferencing, notifications of target activity – logins etc, online social networking details" and another category called "special requests".

NSA scandal: what data is being monitored and how does it work?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/07/nsa-prism-records-surveillance-questions

‘ Discussing the use of GPS data collected from mobile phones, an appellate court noted that even location information on its own could reveal a person's secrets: "A person who knows all of another's travels can deduce whether he is a weekly churchgoer, a heavy drinker, a regular at the gym, an unfaithful husband, an outpatient receiving medical treatment, an associate of particular individuals or political groups," it read, "and not just one such fact about a person, but all such facts."

Verizon court order: telephone call metadata and what it can show
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/phone-call-metadata-information-authorities

Answer 1

I really hope the government have something slightly more important to do then monitor me waffling on in here. Considering you can be deleted for asking what to have for tea, I can imagine how sad we must be to pay our taxes to have such things deleted for chatting. It worries me that some users are sad enough to delete some things, let alone the fact that we pay them for it!

Answer 2

People - this is not new



When the Internet was invented, it was a Top Secret completely secured network designed to allow scientists from all around the country collaborate on one thing - how to build a better nuclear weapon.

And to make sure it stayed secure, the NSA was tasked with monitoring and policing the system, to insure those bomb secrets stayed secret.

They have never left



Now, in Utah, at the largest nexus of fiber optic nodes in the USA, NSA's new "super data sucker upper" collects and sorts and peruses incredible masses of data every second.

If your on the net, you go through here



With the increased budgets after 9/11, the abilities of the NSA to track down any piece of data in near real time has exploded. It's not that Big Brother is coming



He's Hereeeeeee!

Answer 3

Yes, in part. Many of the political US-based questions I have ask have been deleted while you can trawl Y & A and look at the vast amount of rubbish left untouched that you'd have to be daft to think otherwise! I'm not the only one, of course.



Example from previous Questions (copy and pasted), you can see the deletion at the bottom of the relevant questions:



• What do you mathematician's make of this?

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• In Mathematics -

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• 10 months ago -

• Deleted

• Do the Brazillian Favelas have internet access?

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• In Languages -

• 2 answers -

• 10 months ago -

• Resolved

• Poll: Should secret state court hearings be allowed?

• 0 Stars

• In Government -

• 0 answers -

• 10 months ago -

• Deleted

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• Is the UK Government and MI6 above the Law?

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• Does the National Security state really have our best interests at heart?

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• Is this corruption at the top of the BBC?

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• How much would it cost in policing if Julian Assange stayed in the embassy for 10 years?

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• Is the whole Julian Assange case highlighting the urgent need for policy change in the UK?

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• Are the secondary drone attacks demonstrating that the US is above International Law?

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• Is this James Randi trying to discredit Uri Geller's psychic abilities?

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• Is Kim Dotcom facing the same type of persecution that Julian Assange is facing?

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Answer 4

They (NSA and other government censors) have delete many of my posts here for many years. I have given up trying to ask any relevant or pertinent questions due to complete and total censorship by the US Government. They also started opening my personal letters. What you have is a fascist communist State of NO PRIVACY.

The USA STINKS

Answer 5

I hope more questions like this will be asked. The more it hammers home the more pressure we can put on our so-called representational governments. However, judging by the Guantanamo situation I wouldn't be over-optimistic!



p.s. The NSA also use your 'personal' computers webcam to identify people....wait for that one about to break!



If you check the websites in the Chinese block list you'll have a better idea as to which servers/corporations are being used by the US!

Answer 6

Long before Prism, there was (and still is) the Five Eyes of ECHELON:

Link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

Ever since the Cold War, five allied Western governments have been tuned into the world's telecommunications and they're still listening.

They've been doing everything PRISM's alleged to be capable of your whole entire life.

Answer 7

This kind of thing has been happening since the 1960's. Take a look at ECHELON! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON



And Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGMGycNL-Mw from 0:50 onwards!

Answer 8

Internet censorship is really bad in the US but the UK is very close behind and, of course, the US only has to pull it's strings....! I guess when people have totally lost all freedom they'll start to notice....or maybe not from my observation.



https://answersrip.com/question/index?qid=20120919032606AACBZHt

Answer 9

The NSA nor any other government agency can really be trusted by we the american people to the fullest extent. I wouldn't be surprised if they WERE censoring Qs and As on here. not surprised at all.

Answer 10

In practice, it's malicious loons, malicious pedants and similar sad people.



Government may watch you, but won't bother to delete you.



End anonymous reporting now!

Answer 11

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NSA



(Attention: Joke!)

Answer 12

Questions and answers that violate the site guidelines are spotted by other members who click the abuse flag and the computer removes it dependant on the trust of the reporter. Its very unusual for one member to be able to remove a post on their own.



This is nothing to do with the NSA ? Its what we agreed to when we started and is for all our safety.



Its possible to appeal against a deletion.