Posts Tagged ‘Bad parents’

I give you a frightening story about free speech censorship a watchlist, and parenting gone south… A recent article in The Tennessean reveals how the Williamson County School District (WCS) is monitoring student’s free speech and social media posts. The WCS recently implemented a “threat surveillance program” called Gaggle, which is so invasive and frightening one would be hard-pressed not to call it a “gag” program that limits student’s free speech. When the WCS was asked to reveal specific details about what Gaggle and authorities are monitoring student’s speech for, they claimed they could not reveal any details “due to federal family protection laws.” Public & private schools are joining the ranks of alphabet soup surveillance agencies like DHS, the FBI, and the NSA claiming they cannot reveal surveillance details. The Tennessean was able to shed some light on what Gaggle monitors by saying it, “operates using a mathematical algorithm to…