>There is a very easy way to test their capabilities. Send a text message with keywords involving bombs and political figures and see what happens. I'm not goin

>There is a very easy way to test their capabilities. Send a text message with keywords involving bombs and political figures and see what happens. I'm not going to do it, but it would be an interesting experiment. See how far "they" have gotten? They made us afraid of texting certain keywords to other people using a medium that's supposed to be usable for private one-on-one communications. In a country that values freedom of speech over nearly everything else. Free to say what you want as long as no government has an issue with it I guess. Of course we don't know whether SMSes are actually monitored. Of course it's very well possible that nothing might happen if you text your buddy something involving bombs. But the fact that something might happen was so convincing to you (and me, honestly and I don't even live in the US) that you decided not to do it. To me, that's greatly concerning as it shows that the oppression is already happening and we are already censoring ourselves even over private media.