I agree the secret, sinister stuff is nonsense, BUT I think there are legitimate privacy concerns for citizens. The Presidential Records Act is being, appropria

I agree the secret, sinister stuff is nonsense, BUT I think there are legitimate privacy concerns for citizens. The Presidential Records Act is being, appropriately I believe, extended to social media. The average citizen probably had no idea the act existed; probably more so for anyone who is buying into the wildest exaggerations. As the post explains, 'The PRA also extends to communications from people outside the White House. So if a lobbyist or CEO emails the White House, that communication is a presidential record and will eventually be made public. The same holds true for correspondence received by the White House from the public. Because of the PRA, Presidents Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush all treated letters, faxes, and other communications from the public as presidential records.' 'Instead of sending an email, people often now post on someone’s profile or comment on a video or photo that's been uploaded. When people want to tell the White House what they think, they’ll often do the same thing on our social media pages. A lot of times, we solicit this feedback because we want to hear from you. These new types of communications from individuals to the White House, even though they take a different form, are governed by the PRA.' So yes, in the past if you sent a letter to the White House it was archived, but it is an entirely different mindset for someone posting a comment, or sending an @whitehouse on Twitter. We're talking about archiving, for public record, something you probably quickly typed, not a letter you sat down, wrote, and sent via the mail. Is there anything sinister? No. But I think it makes perfect sense that this is something that needs to be explained to the general public who are a) woefully ignorant of how their government works, and b) rightfully suspicious of how laws written decades ago, which weren't designed for social media, let alone the Internet, are being interpreted and applied on the fly.