{"id":1658031,"date":"2022-09-26T08:28:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T12:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1658031"},"modified":"2022-09-26T08:28:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T12:28:25","slug":"zoomers-have-made-peace-with-constant-surveillance-and-its-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zoomers-have-made-peace-with-constant-surveillance-and-its-scary\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoomers Have Made Peace With Constant Surveillance, And It\u2019s Scary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fzoomers-have-made-peace-with-constant-surveillance-and-its-scary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1658031&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An ongoing TikTok trend shows users joking about their personal FBI agents watching them through their phones and computer screens. Most of the videos portray the TikTokers\u2019 agents viewing them do harmless (albeit embarrassing) things.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok wp-block-embed-tiktok\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok wp-block-embed-tiktok\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok wp-block-embed-tiktok\"><\/figure>\n<p>What\u2019s troubling about all these videos is that users seem to have thoroughly made peace with the fact they are being watched 24\/7 via their devices. Perhaps their contentment is a coping mechanism. However, most users seem to view the surveillance as either negligible or an aid to our collective common good.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@shenanigansmax\/video\/6895506803686214917?_r=1&amp;_t=8VsP2n5rHck&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;item_id=6895506803686214917\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">One user<\/a> says that his FBI agent is \u201csav[ing] the world.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@trevorjcosby\/video\/6715897436671413510?_t=8VvdtNiaAOs&amp;_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Another<\/a> expresses a sort of odd friendship and even closeness with his FBI agent because the agent knows so much about him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This user, who is in support of the FBI raid into Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home, made a video about texting all her contacts \u201cwow the FBI did a great job raiding Mar-A-Lago, h-ll ya! Love those guys,\u201d so that she could send her FBI agent \u201cpositive upward feedback,\u201d the assumption being that her agent is reading through her messages and will surely see her text in support of the raid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok wp-block-embed-tiktok\"><\/figure>\n<p>Even the TikTokers who don\u2019t necessarily convey support of the surveillance do not seem to be concerned because their videos show themselves doing cringe-worthy but ultimately benign things. In the captions, they often express how sorry they feel for their FBI agents, who are being forced to watch them for hours on end doing nothing worth the agent\u2019s time and attention. So while they may be embarrassed, they aren\u2019t worried about getting hauled in for questioning.<\/p>\n<p>All these TikToks are manifestations of the prevailing sentiment among young people that forgoing their liberties in exchange for safety and security is either inconsequential or good.\u00a0The issue is, increased government surveillance has proven to be neither inconsequential nor good.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For all the surveillance they do, does the FBI effectively prevent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/fbi-got-tip-parkland-shooter-nikolas-cruz-january-didn-t-n848681\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">school shootings<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-explosions-boston-congress\/russia-warned-u-s-about-boston-marathon-bomb-suspect-tsarnaev-report-idUSBREA2P02Q20140326\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bombings<\/a>? No. They do, however, get involved in things like the \u201ckidnapping\u201d plot of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, which many suspect was an entrapment scheme <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandeis.edu\/investigate\/government-corporate-wrong-doing\/catching-or-creating-terrorists.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">orchestrated<\/a> by the FBI. And they also launch investigations into \u201cterrorist\u201d parents who express concerns at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1524545943311314944?s=20&amp;t=DPs74N0k5aqbzPMsG_I2qw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">local school board meetings<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The FBI\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/jmd\/page\/file\/1399031\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2022 budget<\/a> has its largest funding increase request under the category of combatting \u201cdomestic terrorism,\u201d a label which we\u2019ve seen the left use to smear their ideological opponents at will, from concerned parents to people who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/ntas\/advisory\/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-february-07-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">challenge<\/a> the regime\u2019s narrative online.\u00a0Our federal agencies have become spy machines committed to weaponizing their illegal intelligence against any political adversary of the left (so, half the country). <\/p>\n<p>Apparently, they aren\u2019t even focused on catching child predators anymore after a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/20\/whistleblower-fbi-is-dropping-child-sexual-abuse-investigations-to-pursue-j6-witch-hunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">whistleblower<\/a> came forward this week alleging that the FBI is moving its agents off of child sexual abuse cases to instead pursue its Jan. 6 witch hunt.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/08\/docs-fbi-pressured-americans-to-sign-away-their-gun-rights-without-a-court-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revealed<\/a> that for years the FBI has been secretly pressuring Americans into signing forms that relinquish their constitutional right to own, purchase, or even use firearms. The agency also <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/30\/zuckerbergs-admission-of-fbi-meddling-in-2020-election-is-even-bigger-than-it-seems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interfered<\/a> in the 2020 election by reportedly directing Facebook (and likely other platforms) to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesfreepress.com\/news\/2020\/nov\/26\/cooper-biden-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Polls<\/a> show that 1 in 6 Biden voters would have changed their minds if they\u2019d known about the several throttled news stories that were unfavorable to Biden, including the story about his son\u2019s laptop).<\/p>\n<p>The FBI is the most well-known of our government law enforcement agencies, which is why the TikTok trend is all about FBI surveillance. However, the FBI is not the only federal agency that\u2019s spying on Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Intelligence Agency (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyden.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/wyden-and-heinrich-newly-declassified-documents-reveal-previously-secret-cia-bulk-collection-problems-with-cia-handling-of-americans-information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CIA<\/a>) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2022\/05\/12\/ice-dragnet-surveillance-report\/9737603002\/?gnt-cfr=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ICE<\/a>) also monitor and collect the data of U.S. citizens. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-admin-amassing-millions-of-records-on-u-s-gun-owners-amid-new-crackdown-on-firearms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">collected millions of records<\/a> on legal firearm owners despite a national gun database being strictly forbidden by Congress. Even the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uspsoig.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/document-library-files\/2022\/21-191-R22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. Postal Service was caught <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/the-postal-service-is-running-a-running-a-covert-operations-program-that-monitors-americans-social-media-posts-160022919.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">monitoring<\/a> people\u2019s social media accounts and forwarding posts to the Department of Homeland Security through its<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uspsoig.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/document-library-files\/2022\/21-191-R22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> iCOP program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We know Big Brother doesn\u2019t have the people\u2019s best interests at heart. That\u2019s why our founders came up with this whole idea of limited government in the first place. It\u2019s disturbing to know that America\u2019s young people are willing to just accept \u2014 even happily \u2014 that the government is watching their every post, like, purchase, and search.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Gen Z has known nothing other than our technology-saturated, post-Patriot Act society. Contributing to Zoomer\u2019s contentment is that they likely believe they are politically on the \u201cright side\u201d and have nothing to hide. Perhaps America\u2019s younger generations will change their minds if ever they do become the object of the deep state\u2019s wrath.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, it looks like they are going to have to learn this one the hard way. As Ben Franklin said, \u201cThose who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Evita Duffy is a staff writer to The Federalist and the co-founder of the Chicago Thinker. She loves the Midwest, lumberjack sports, writing, &#038; her family. Follow her on Twitter at @evitaduffy_1 or contact her at evita@thefederalist.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ongoing TikTok trend shows users joking about their personal FBI agents watching them through their phones and computer screens. 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