I understand law enforcement monitoring these things for security purposes and have no problem with that. I have a huge problem with any government official hiring a civilian to monitor the internet for people saying mean things. Now if we want to take this specific case we have a governor who is the only governor in the history of America to eliminate his state's arts council because he wants to eliminate government waste yet he's using our tax dollars to pay people to monitor twitter. Sorry but this makes him a hypocritical bad person, I don't care who else does it, its wrong even more so if you are pulling basic social services by claiming poor.
LOL, you're really grasping at straws here and not getting the point. I am amused at how many words you use while grasping though.
I don't give a flying eff who else pays pays people to search the net for negative feedback, doesnt make it right. Succinct enough for you?
Why is it wrong? Is it wrong for politicians to also subscribe to clipping services?
Unless he is paying for web searches out of his own pocket, it is very wrong.
So no government funds for a clipping service then?
It's completely unnecessary. It's not like clipping services and web monitoring are used to govern. Not accepting the health insurance reform money, cutting the arts council, snitching on high schoolers, the voting reform, etc were all unpopular stances some of which were very unpopular didn't stop all of these things from happening.
So you know for certain that none of this monitoring or clipping service information was used in making decision based on a handful of mildly unpopular decisions.
None of those issues were very unpopular. For very unpopular issues see Wisconsin, Ohio. This is still Kansas, and Brownback would win an election tomorrow despite all those issues.
I'm no fan of Brownback, but the mere fact that he's monitoring social media isn't wrong. What he chooses to do with that information is incredibly wrong.
I'm sure you'd like a law passed to make it illegal to monitor social networks in the future because Browback is terrible at using an otherwise benign tool.