Snowden docs reveal British spies snooped on YouTube and Facebook

[JDPriestly]

1. This is not the NSA, but it seems pretty irrelevant.

If they were monitoring websites that terror suspects watched, that would make sense. If they monitored videos that advocated violence that would make sense. I suspect that they are monitoring us on DU, our likes, our comments. And this is a pretty political website -- where we clearly are exercising our First Amendment rights.

There is no provision prohibiting the government form monitoring us as we exercise our First Amendment rights, but there probably should be. And they certainly should not be monitoring prominent politicians or would-be politicians. We don't know if they are.