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Domestic Surveillance

Colbert: NSA Spying on Online Games to Prevent non-existent Virtual Terrorism

Juan Cole 12/18/2013

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Stephen Colbert reports on NSA spying on online games. He notes that covert NSA analysts may be a majority in some virtual hang-outs and had to institute protocols so that they did not end up spying on each other!

[Juan Cole made fun a few years ago of the obsession by some security agencies with virtual worlds and online games in this Salon article.

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Filed Under: Domestic Surveillance, Government surveillance, media, Uncategorized

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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