http://www.guardian.co.uk - NSA Taps... 

(Click link above for the full article posted at The Guardian's website)

NSA taps everything from Verizon Conversations to Facebook Posts

(The name of the classified information gathering project, and I believe their logo.)

To anyone from the forums located in that dank and dark corner of the internet who post about conspiracies of all sorts, the government's involvement in these social networks and communication corporations is a no brainier. But, now that the Guardian has just picked up the story, I think more then just the Internets keyboard clicking political theorists will be paying closer attention to this extreme invasion of privacy.

The term "Conspiracy Theorist", I believe, is a word that needs to be dropped from peoples vocabulary, as it has a bad connotation and puts an image into peoples minds of a crazy guy in a trailer typing away while pulling his hair out as he constantly twitches and sporadically looks over his shoulder in a state of paranoia. 

(Graph from The Guardian article)

"It also opens the possibility of communications made entirely within the US being collected without warrants.

Disclosure of the PRISM program follows a leak to the Guardian on Wednesday of a top-secret court order compelling telecoms provider Verizon to turn over the telephone records of millions of US customers." - The Guardian

(Chart from The Guardian article )

"Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU's Center for Democracy, that it was astonishing the NSA would even ask technology companies to grant direct access to user data.

"It's shocking enough just that the NSA is asking companies to do this," he said. "The NSA is part of the military. The military has been granted unprecedented access to civilian communications.

"This is unprecedented militarisation of domestic communications infrastructure. That's profoundly troubling to anyone who is concerned about that separation." " - The Guardian

So, anyone want to join my group on Facebook to band Facebook?