Big Brother Town Department Paid to Spy on Private Social Media Posts That Do Not Align With Woke Beliefs

Published on February 11, 2024

Under a policy being likened to something right out of George Orwell’s iconic novel “1984,” a town in Arizona is paying out more than a million dollars in salaries to employ spies to monitor private social media posts of town employees for anything that aligns with conservative views. While the Gilbert Office of Digital Government (ODG) has urged town workers to support LGBTQ+ and Black Lives Matter (BLM) causes, it reprimanded a local firefighter for posting a picture of himself on Facebook posing with a life-sized cutout of former President Donald Trump. The department even sent a warning notice to the local fire department after firefighters honked the horn of a town fire engine in support of a local Back The Blue rally. “We must be careful not to take sides,” a memorandum sent by the ODG to the fire department warned....