Monday, October 31, 2016

Freedom Shenanigan #53 - Check in at Standing Rock


Freedom Shenanigan #53 - Check in at Standing Rock

Thousands of people are “checking in” on Facebook to throw off cops

Come on you all who claim to believe in liberty and honest government. Put your fat internet butt and clicking finger on the line and check in at Standing Rock. It is the least you can do, like picking the lesser of two evils except, it is is actually a good thing and not choosing evil!

https://news.vice.com/story/facebook-users-are-falsely-checking-in-at-standing-rock-to-confuse-police

Protesters against the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock, North Dakota, believe the local Morton County sheriff’s department is monitoring Facebook “check-ins” at the Indian reservation to get a sense of who’s protesting. And someone’s apparently trying to mess with that monitoring...Keshia Pendigrast, a student and staff member at the Union Theological Seminary in New York, said she had more than 65 friends check in at Standing Rock on Monday morning alone. After investigating further, she decided to add her name. “I think we underestimate how often Facebook is used by law enforcement,” Pendigrast said. “So if my small check-in confuses a sheriff somewhere, I’m happy.”