As I was describing some of my own adventures on GC...I had the revelation that anyone could potentially be incriminating themselves with their posts.. Some people have gone as far as naming models of cars in certain parts of town on here! Do you think the Feds track the posts on here? Or what dpt would follow? Do they? I bet someone does. Sent from my iPad using Grasscity Forum
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If you think sites like these aren't being watched... lol, you're too far behind to be helped. If all of us know about this place, how hard do you think it is for anyone in any intelligence agency to just... whip up an account and start watching? They can even interact and pretend to be "one of us."
Why would the feds care about some potheads? there's a couple big grows but no talk really of large-scale deals
Why? Because "marijuana is a shedule 1 narcotic," and "because it's their job." It's not only large-scale grows they're interested in stopping, it's any grow that isn't protected by a state law. Assuming they wouldn't scour the easily accessible internet looking for readily available incriminating info, is like them assuming no one would share such info willingly. The precedent has already been set. There have already been at least a few people busted for revealing identifiable info on the internet. Plus, just about everything on the internet is archived. There's even an official name for the internet monitoring operation, but i can't remember it offhand.
ehhhh I seriously doubt local precincts are scouring an international website to find local small time grows. Also doubt national agencies are worried about the small time grows. That being said if I was in an illegal state I probably wouldn't post about my grow.
Look at it this way: consider the laws on possessing small amounts of smokable bud. Now consider how much of that can be produced by a single well-grown plant. There are no "small time" grows, in the eyes of the prohibitionists. In their opinion (which is often shared by the enforcers paid to enforce that opinion), all cannabis is bad. Even one plant. They think it is literally "dangerous." Just a few well-grown plants could yield enough smoke for a whole year for a single person, and those prohibitionists are convinced that any person who has more than they need for just a few days worth, is going to force children to smoke it and ruin their llives. That's part of why the penalties are so disproportionately severe, and why they send militarized raid units to intrude people's homes, just to stop them from growing some plants.
Also police departments don't get extra funding for solving murders or rapes or anything, just drugs. If they fail to make the same amount of busts as the previous year then they get less funding. Which is the reason they focus so much on small timers and other bullshit as well as larger operations too. I could see a few desperate cops using websites like this in an attempt to make some busts.
Iv been a tech administrator of a few sites and there is no such thing as privacy online. Same here, they can send their mama to my house to suck on my big, fat, rock hard cock.
they have the ability to watch us..... but they dont care. if they did then all of us would be arrested.
that's a lot of gestapo-style authoritarianism to explain to the proletariat... or rather, refuse to sufficiently justify, and risk a counter-reaction push-back... that's why they don't just literally go door to door, rounding up everyone who self-incriminates on the internet. It's a bit of a precarious balance for them.
Yes I think that there is a good chance that this forum could be/ might have been monitored. For the most part, what they found, was a plethura of uneducated teens on here wanting to know how to make a sploof and pass a pee test. They did not find any heads of cartels making plans for shipment of tons of ilegal weed into U.S. No illegal arms sales. No acts of terrorism or terrorist groups. I would be the first to report that shit in a heartbeat if i ever saw my beloved grass City plagued with that crap.
it's not illegal to self-incriminate. The site itself isn't illegal, that's not the point in question. What is being questioned is whether this totally public website is being monitored for the purpose of identifying and prosecuting anyone who may volunteer self-incriminating evidence of their illegal activities. My answer to that is: EVERYTHING on the internet can be monitored, and it would be quite foolish to expect that no law agencies would monitor such a readily available source of information. That is part of why the site doesn't want anyone discussing illegal activities. Another part is that the site and its owners can be penalized (or worse) for harboring/encouraging illegal activity, and if subpoenaed, they are most likely legally obligated, as part of the regulations allowing them to host the site, to turn over any and all relevant data, upon valid request from any agency authorized to make such legal requests.
yeah... it's easy for people who are aware of the realities of the world, including the inherent insecurity of the internet... But there are quite a lot of people living in a delusional false sense of security, who reveal things they should not.