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[–]Site_sux 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (11 children)

Yeah the seventeen regular posters of this reddit-clone are sure to attract the United States' justice department's office of brandon-posting, q love and transphobia.

Talk about an inflated self image....

[–]Zapped 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

No doubt that Feds visit this site just to check on activity or even just the climate. Whether or not they are active users here is another guess.

[–]Site_sux 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Really, you have no doubt that there's a team within the justice department who do rounds of twenty-member Reddit clones to "check on activity".

How on earth did you develop a worldview where a statement like that leaves you with "no doubt"?

[–]Zapped 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

That's how they work. Do you think they sit around and wait for a "tip" to come in? Maybe they visit once a week, but this site gets enough traffic for them to visit. Maybe they even have crawlers that search for text and keywords and only bring in a real person when something pops up.

[–]Site_sux 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

wait for a "tip"

Yes, that's how I think they work, they deal with criminal complaints.

And no, if you read the snowden leaks you would have seen - even with thousands and thousands of contractors they can't deal with every flagged statement that gets typed into the internet.

"I'm going to kill the president with a bomb"

That's not going to summon a human for review. It just doesn't work like that

[–]Zapped 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

We're going to have to disagree on this one and leave it at that.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Do you think I'm the FBI's most wanted muskrat at least? Perhaps my cooking is seen as subversive.

[–]Zapped 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

No. I think IranianMuskrat and ColombianMuskrat are higher on the list.

[–]Site_sux 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I think unless you're doing crimes which the justice department prioritise looking into, then you're not on their radar at all. Sorry to bear the bad news

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I actually was briefly caught up in a joint FBI task force investigation once, they were going after a friend of a friend who was a meth cook. I guess they cast the net wide and were looking at everyone connected even though I had nothing to do with that. They got pretty much everyone too. Me and my friend just got followed around a bit by a 5 car tail!

They stopped at a gas station with us once. We pulled in and so do maybe three of the SUVs with the super dark tink. They don't even get out of their vehicles. And we're just sitting there, not wanting to get out of the car to fill up with them flanking us. Eventually I said fuck it, if they're going to arrest us, we're fucked anyways. Filled up the tank, and had them all just sit there till they followed us out again.

I got some practice trying to lose tails. The traffic here helps, even something as simple as an unexpected U-turn and it can be real hard to follow. But that's why they use multiple vehicles.

People usually don't believe that story, they think the FBI would never do all of the sloppy shit they did, they'd be watching us with sophisticated technology. CSI effect.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

^ canned response

[–]Site_sux 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

How did you determine that