US authorities should adjust their webmining algorithms.
US bars friends over Twitter joke
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#12Comments on the article's page are even scarier than the article itself.
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#13US authorities should adjust their webmining algorithms.
For what? So that they can spot real terrorists who post their plans on-line?
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#14Shenanigans.
1) Where did they get the pictured Homeland Security report if HS "declined to comment"? If accurate, it looks like the sort of communication that an agency that refused to comment on an story would not be too quick to divulge. There is no mention of a FOI application, which I'm not even sure two foreigners are entitled to.
2) The two posing clowns are just that kind you would expect to be the butt of jokes. They're so insanely benign, they must have been created for the sole purpose of harmlessness.
3) It's the Sun.
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#15The apologists in the comments are pretty sickening. But I guess that's what I get for clicking on a link to the sun
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#16Just another prove that the terrorists won after all :(
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#17Have no more fear, your country is safe from all terrorists who tweet about their plans. Truthfully, I wouldn't have expected this from America, they're the kind of jokes I could imagine myself making on Twitter, but will be careful not to before future trips there.. This is pretty much what I think of when going to China, and what makes me specially careful not to say anything the Chinese could take as a threat. Heh…
These stories we keep seeing do the US no good at all. From the outside the you look don't look very attractive to visit or do business with.
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#18I am not really familiar with the Sun, but people here on HN seem to dismiss the story as a hoax because it's featured on the this website/newspaper. Can anyone please clarify what's its reputation and why should it be mistrusted? Thanks.
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#19Comments on the article's page are even scarier than the article itself.
I'd like to remind the wider international HN community that Sun readers are not representative of the UK...
But I can't, because sadly they are.
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#20And people wonder why I do nothing on the Internet under my own name.