The federal government can see which videos you are watching on YouTube.

Perhaps this doesn't come as a surprise to some people after years of evidence

that the FBI is spying on ordinary conservatives, Republican campaign workers, Catholics who go to the Latin

mass and on and on.

But now we know for certain.

According to a new report in Forbes, federal authorities asked Google for the names, addresses, phone numbers, and user activity of accounts that watched certain YouTube videos in early January of last year.

And if you think watching YouTube without logging in will protect you, you are wrong.

The feds also reportedly ordered Google to hand over the IP addresses of viewers who were not logged in. The government is

defending the spying on the grounds that they are investigating a money laundering

operation linked to certain videos. But those videos had tens of thousands of views. All but one, a

handful at most of those viewers, had nothing to do with the alleged crime that was

being investigated. The rest are being spied on.

Just because they can. The reporting is bad enough.

But if the federal government currently has this power with Google and

cahoots, knowing what we know about surveillance of the American right, does

anyone doubt that they can get and very likely have gotten identifying information

about all sorts of other political enemies. If you are watching this show on

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