Government Monitoring Internet Privacy

" I say that the government should have a limit on when they can monitor. The government is meant to keep the people safe, but that does not mean the government should know everything people do. This would include the government monitoring people’s internet content. With monitoring internet content the federal government deals with national matters, protection of private content from the government, it is for protecting the people, and schools can view students posts.

I say that the federal government should only focus on the national security matters. They can monitor content that can affect the whole country or internationally. They can focus on terrorism and other big national matters. The federal government can be included when the state or local government cannot handle the issue. The federal has more to worry about than what people post online. The state and local governments can deal with the issues that are affecting only small areas. The federal government needs reasonable suspicion to look at someone’s posts. The federal government would focus on stopping terrorists from making plans. This would help stop many terrorist attacks. They cannot dig deep into someone’s internet content unless they have reasonable suspicion that the person

If the post is public they can look at the post. Everyone else can see the post so why not the government? The posts that are not public the government cannot view. The only reason they should be able to see it is if they have a warrant to search it. The government looking at people’s posts would be an intrusion of privacy. The Fourth Amendment protects us from the government search our property. This would include our internet content. The fact that someone is watching what a person is doing would be thought as an invasion of privacy. Even people that do not have anything hide do not want the government looking into what they post. It could be seen as the government is stalking