According to the Center for Constitutional Rights the material support stature, also known as 18 USC Sec. 2339B creates the right for the government to snoop on you for your political beliefs. Anything to do with "radical" subjects can subject you this snooping, usually by private firms under contract to the U.S. government. What the techs at these groups consider radical is anybody's guess. Firms like Palantir, under gov't contract can decide.
This is extremely disturbing when one understands that Palantir, as I noted in another post, is under contract with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ". . . to develop tactics for damaging progressive groups and labor unions. One wonders if they don't use information gathered from their work with the NSA to gather information for the Chamber to attack Think Progress and other progressive sites on the web. (Think Progress has a lawsuit against the government for this activity by Palantir.)
I think if you are reading this you could well be under government observation.
Google is closely watched by various government snooping agencies. Perhaps Plantir has you in their sights because, as an article in Truthout observes, the firm, manned by hipster, tech savvy people may think you're a threat to national security because, under the material support statute, you are reading "radical" material.
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