{"id":1626,"date":"2008-10-28T10:29:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T14:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2008-10-28T10:29:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T14:29:42","slug":"i-warned-you-about-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/28\/i-warned-you-about-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"I Warned You About Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All that time you&#8217;re spending on Twitter?\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;re harming US national defense, as some portion of the military is apparently spend its time analyzing your tweets instead of doing something useful.\u00c2\u00a0 From a recent report issued by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion (of the U.S. Army):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Twitter has also become a social activism tool for socialists, human rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists, religious communities, atheists, political enthusiasts, <em>hacktivists<\/em> and others to communicate with each other and to send messages to broader audiences[.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously.\u00c2\u00a0 Vegetarians?\u00c2\u00a0 Some military unit <em>spent time<\/em> creating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/irp\/eprint\/mobile.pdf\">this report<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Boggling.\u00c2\u00a0 Next up: terrorists AND those weird macrobiotic diet people use the telephone system!\u00c2\u00a0 Oh noes!11!!!<\/p>\n<p>(BTW &#8211; the attraction of Twitter remains a mystery to me, despite the fact that I&#8217;m a member of a number of the noted groups.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All that time you&#8217;re spending on Twitter?\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;re harming US national defense, as some portion of the military is apparently spend its time analyzing your tweets instead of doing something useful.\u00c2\u00a0 From a recent report issued by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion (of the U.S. Army): Twitter has also become a social activism tool for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1627,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions\/1627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}