It's scary that they're following visitors to the country on Twitter etc to try and catch them out though eh? Hadn't even considered that before.
nice to know I'm not the only gullible person on BL.
Spadey I find it highly dubious that they would follow peoples social networking profiles let alone EVERY single visitor who enters the country on holiday.
just think about the resources that would take? All that time money and man power to kick some guy out for DJ'ing. C'mon dude. If he did get kicked out because he put this information on twitter don't you think i'd be more likely someone grassed him up?
Governments spying on visitors social networking sites PFFFTTT. THATS paranoia talk spadey.
Serious, serious headfuck. Girlfriend comes out and tells me last night she's 3 weeks late for her period. So I go round today, she takes the test. Pregnant. I try to make her feel better etc, then leave so she can talk to her mum.
I get home just now, and she's on msn talking to me asif it doesn't matter and nothings happened. All fine and dandy, got doctors booked for tomorrow to get rid of it allready. Well, to see how/when. I tried explaining at hers that I know it's the right thing to do, and the best thing for her and would support her, but she had ago at me for it. And now, she's acting like it's all fine. I can't just act fine within an hour or so of knowing.
You never seen the Aussie border control show, those folk go to great lengths to stop people coming in. They'll look through your camera and if they find any photos of you that looks like you might be on drugs they'll arrest you.
Someone grassing on him is possible but the only people following his twitter feed are friends, most of them from outside of Australia. There's no reason for any of them to do it. I'm not buying that any of his friends from Aus thought about calling the authorities on him because he mentioned he was going to be DJing, it isn't 'work' it's just a hobby of his, he said he didn't even get paid for it. Why would anyone care anyway and how would some random seeing a post on twitter about a bloke DJing in Aus know that he wasn't supposed to be DJing, was a tourist etc and go to the effort of grassing him. It's all a bit suspect.
And I'm sure Government probably do spy on social networking sites in some instances, employers are doing it all the time now. I know a few people (family and friends) who have been given warnings and even suspensions because of things they've said about their work / employers on FB. People post a lot of things they shouldn't on FB so it's not completely unbelievable that the Gov would want to monitor it.