Is Boards.ie monitored by the CIA, KGB, Mossad, MI5 et al?

People should speak out more about people "monitoring" people generally. F@cebook, smart phones, forums, phone calls, etc.

Seems a good gulp of people are being brainwashed into believing this is a good thing. I ask myself what kind of person would work for an organisation whos business is the creation of fear, paranoia and hate.

I'd imagine the site probably has somebody sitting behind a desk in Washington/London/Tel Aviv/Moscow/Dublin/well you get it... who earns their bread by keeping an eye on it.

Didn't it get an honourable mention in the US Secret Service briefing paper before young Barrack of Offaly paid us a visit a few years ago?

My God, if it is, I really feel for whatever poor unfortunate gobsh!te has to read through it all

Imagine Mossad spying on this they'd have a field day!

Mods apart from banning a person but they what you thought were serious threats would you have to report it to head office or something?

The Americans would keep tabs on us I guess but the British are currently and have been monitoring the Irish on a grand scale. They obviously have been monitoring the Irish government/Gardai/military and civilians because of the north.

Our own government have been bugging journalists phones for at least 40 years, so if our own government have no problem with doing it to us why would any other government.

Do you think they would have left Eamon Gilmore meet the Queen just off the plane if they hadn't done extensive research and background checks on him, which obviously would include electronic surveillance.

I just think the few hardliners left in the IRA aren't going to be logging into Facebook and proclaiming, 'off to plant a bomb', it's going to be so big, lollers!!!'

Is anyone else wondering just what the Sam Hill all the fuss is about? Is it people my age, who grew up with James Bond, who consider all this stuff perfectly normal and exactly what one would expect foreign diplomats/agents to be up to? Is it just the Generation Y-ers who are all "Like, oh-my-God big sh!t! BIIIIIIG sh!t!" over this?

So the Western governments think the Chinese and Russians are assholes, the main NATO powers are bickering, everyone is worried about the Pakinstanis nuclear weapons, and the Americans are considering how to snaffle North Korea from the Chinese when Kim Jong's spaceship arrives to beam him up. What else is new.

For example, apparently Muammar Ghaddafi was "accompanied everywhere by a "voluptuous blonde" Ukrainian nurse". How is this news? In a more civilised age Sean Connery would head out to Libya, bonk said nurse, give the good Colonel a little lead injection, then get pissed on vodka martinis while tearing across the Med on his speedboat. All in a good days work.

What do people think these people do all day - lounge around drinking wine and congratulating each other on their wonderful economic policy? I demand occasional shenanigans, dammit!

It's probably monitored for key words but I doubt difference they're all that interested in all the "Yore Ma" posts.

TBH with our shambolic government and the amount of oil off our coast I'm surprised we haven't been "liberated" already regardless....

The nuns are dirty .. the chickens have been tainted.

Meet at the hawk shelter.

****throws burner phone in bin and disappears into the crowd****