I guess I could consider myself "watched" - as all 377 words are here ...    Actually, most of most likely could consider ourselves as being watched by the DHS, as so many of the words are so common in everyday use by the masses, in everyday conversation.  Have you talked about having the flu lately?
 
After reading this article - pass it around - maybe if we all pass it around, we'll  help to diminish the effectiveness of their watchdogs  ... Remember Spartacus?
 
So much for "free speech".
 
As mentioned on the site,  "http://www.absoluterights.com/uncle-sam-admits-monitoring-you-for-these-377-words/"

The author says " ...   I wish I could say the same about the Department of Homeland Security… I wish I could say this is all a big joke… that the government’s “377 words you can never use online” is just some stupid comedy routine. ....
But it’s not. And you just can’t make this stuff up.
 
After vigorous resistance, the Department of Homeland Security was finally forced into releasing it’s 2011 Analyst’s Desktop Binder. It’s a manual of sorts, teaching all the storm troopers who monitor our Internet activity all day which key words to look for.
 
Facebook, a.k.a. the US government’s domestic intelligence center, is the primary target for this monitoring… though it’s become clear so many times before that various departments, including the NSA and FBI, are monitoring online activity ranging from search terms to emails.
 
Domestic spying is typically denied in public and swept under the rug. After all, it’s legality has always been questionable… if not entirely Unconstitutional.
 
Yet it seems that month after month there is new legislation introduced to deprive Internet users of their privacy and make the open collection of data a natural part of the online landscape.
 
Homeland Security’s key word ‘hotlist’ is really no surprise… they’re just the ones to get caught.
 
So now we know, at least, what these goons are looking for. Sort of.
 
According to the manual, DHS breaks down its monitoring into a whopping 14 categories ranging from Health to Fire to Terrorism. It’s a testament to how bloated the department’s scope has become.
 
Afterwards there is a list of 377 of key terms to monitor, most of which are completely innocuous. Exercise. Cloud. Leak. Sick. Organization. Pork. Bridge. Smart. Tucson. Target. China. Social media.
 
Curiously, in its ‘Critical Information Requirements’, the manual decrees that analysts should also catalog items which may “reflect adversely on DHS and response activities.”
 
Absolutely unreal. Big Brother is not just watching. He’s digging, searching, reading, monitoring, archiving, and judging too.
 
Have you hit your breaking point yet?
 
For the complete list of these words, Click Here.
 
Below, we have selected a few of the fun ones. ... " 
 
 
The Complete List of DHS Flagged Words
 
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
 Coast Guard (USCG)
 Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
 Border Patrol
 Secret Service (USSS)
 National Operations Center (NOC)
 Homeland Defense
 Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE)
 Agent
 Task Force
 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
 Fusion Center
 Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
 Secure Border Initiative (SBI)
 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
 Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF)
 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS)
 Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS)
 Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
 Air Marshal
 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
 National Guard
 Red Cross
 United Nations (UN)
 Assassination
 Attack
 Domestic security
 Drill
 Exercise
 Cops
 Law enforcement
 Authorities
 Disaster assistance
 Disaster management
 DNDO (Domestic Nuclear Detection Office)
 National preparedness
 Mitigation
 Prevention
 Response
 Recovery
 Dirty bomb
 Domestic nuclear detection
 Emergency management
 Emergency response
 First responder
 Homeland security
 Maritime domain awareness (MDA)
 National preparedness initiative
 Militia Shooting
 Shots fired
 Evacuation
 Deaths
 Hostage
 Explosion (explosive)
 Police
 Disaster medical assistance team (DMAT)
 Organized crime
 Gangs
 National security
 State of emergency
 Security
 Breach
 Threat
 Standoff
 SWAT
 Screening
 Lockdown
 Bomb (squad or threat)
 Crash
 Looting
 Riot
 Emergency
 Landing
 Pipe bomb
 Incident
 Facility
 Hazmat
 Nuclear
 Chemical spill
 Suspicious package/device
 Toxic
 National laboratory
 Nuclear facility
 Nuclear threat
 Cloud
 Plume
 Radiation
 Radioactive
 Leak
 Biological infection (or event)
 Chemical
 Chemical burn
 Biological
 Epidemic
 Hazardous
 Hazardous material incident
 Industrial spill
 Infection
 Powder (white)
 Gas
 Spillover
 Anthrax
 Blister agent
 Chemical agent
 Exposure
 Burn
 Nerve agent
 Ricin
 Sarin
 North Korea
 Outbreak
 Contamination
 Exposure
 Virus
 Evacuation
 Bacteria
 Recall
 Ebola
 Food Poisoning
 Foot and Mouth (FMD)
 H5N1
 Avian
 Flu
 Salmonella
 Small Pox
 Plague
 Human to human
 Human to Animal
 Influenza
 Center for Disease Control (CDC)
 Drug Administration (FDA)
 Public Health
 Toxic Agro
 Terror Tuberculosis (TB)
 Agriculture
 Listeria
 Symptoms
 Mutation
 Resistant
 Antiviral
 Wave
 Pandemic
 Infection
 Water/air borne
 Sick
 Swine
 Pork
 Strain
 Quarantine
 H1N1
 Vaccine
 Tamiflu
 Norvo Virus
 Epidemic
 World Health Organization (WHO) (and components)
 Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
 E. Coli
 Infrastructure security
 Airport
 CIKR (Critical Infrastructure & Key Resources)
 AMTRAK
 Collapse
 Computer infrastructure
 Communications infrastructure
 Telecommunications
 Critical infrastructure
 National infrastructure
 Metro
 WMATA
 Airplane (and derivatives)
 Chemical fire
 Subway
 BART
 MARTA
 Port Authority
 NBIC (National Biosurveillance Integration Center)
 Transportation security
 Grid
 Power
 Smart
 Body scanner
 Electric
 Failure or outage
 Black out
 Brown out
 Port
 Dock
 Bridge
 Cancelled
 Delays
 Service disruption
 Power lines
 Drug cartel
 Violence
 Gang
 Drug
 Narcotics
 Cocaine
 Marijuana
 Heroin
 Border
 Mexico
 Cartel
 Southwest
 Juarez
 Sinaloa
 Tijuana
 Torreon
 Yuma
 Tucson
 Decapitated
 U.S. Consulate
 Consular
 El Paso
 Fort Hancock
 San Diego
 Ciudad Juarez
 Nogales
 Sonora
 Colombia
 Mara salvatrucha
 MS13 or MS-13
 Drug war
 Mexican army
 Methamphetamine
 Cartel de Golfo
 Gulf Cartel
 La Familia
 Reynosa
 Nuevo Leon
 Narcos
 Narco banners (Spanish equivalents)
 Los Zetas
 Shootout
 Execution
 Gunfight
 Trafficking
 Kidnap
 Calderon
 Reyosa
 Bust
 Tamaulipas
 Meth Lab
 Drug trade
 Illegal immigrants
 Smuggling (smugglers)
 Matamoros
 Michoacana
 Guzman
 Arellano-Felix
 Beltran-Leyva
 Barrio Azteca
 Artistic Assassins
 Mexicles
 New Federation
 Terrorism
 Al Qaeda (all spellings)
 Terror
 Attack
 Iraq
 Afghanistan
 Iran
 Pakistan
 Agro
 Environmental terrorist
 Eco terrorism
 Conventional weapon
 Target
 Weapons grade
 Dirty bomb
 Enriched
 Nuclear
 Chemical weapon
 Biological weapon
 Ammonium nitrate
 Improvised explosive device
 IED (Improvised Explosive Device)
 Abu Sayyaf
 Hamas
 FARC (Armed Revolutionary Forces Colombia)
 IRA (Irish Republican Army)
 ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna)
 Basque Separatists
 Hezbollah
 Tamil Tigers
 PLF (Palestine Liberation Front)
 PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization
 Car bomb
 Jihad
 Taliban
 Weapons cache
 Suicide bomber
 Suicide attack
 Suspicious substance
 AQAP (AL Qaeda Arabian Peninsula)
 AQIM (Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb)
 TTP (Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan)
 Yemen
 Pirates
 Extremism
 Somalia
 Nigeria
 Radicals
 Al-Shabaab
 Home grown
 Plot
 Nationalist
 Recruitment
 Fundamentalism
 Islamist
 Emergency
 Hurricane
 Tornado
 Twister
 Tsunami
 Earthquake
 Tremor
 Flood
 Storm
 Crest
 Temblor
 Extreme weather
 Forest fire
 Brush fire
 Ice
 Stranded/Stuck
 Help
 Hail
 Wildfire
 Tsunami Warning Center
 Magnitude
 Avalanche
 Typhoon
 Shelter-in-place
 Disaster
 Snow
 Blizzard
 Sleet
 Mud slide or Mudslide
 Erosion
 Power outage
 Brown out
 Warning
 Watch
 Lightening
 Aid
 Relief
 Closure
 Interstate
 Burst
 Emergency Broadcast System
 Cyber security
 Botnet
 DDOS (dedicated denial of service)
 Denial of service
 Malware
 Virus
 Trojan
 Keylogger
 Cyber Command
 2600
 Spammer
 Phishing
 Rootkit
 Phreaking
 Cain and abel
 Brute forcing
 Mysql injection
 Cyber attack
 Cyber terror
 Hacker
 China
 Conficker
 Worm
 Scammers
 Social media

Oh dear, I guess I'm being watched too.   
How can anyone be online, and not use some of those words?  After all, they're just "words", right?

Hey NNG,
the words aren't being censored... just that they are 'trigger' words that DHS looks for in posts on face beek, and emails etc.   If you use em, and they are used in a certain context, then you may or may not be placed on the 'watch list', but as you say, it's a huge list of which, many are commonly used words.
 
it's the context with which they are used. 
 
I use 'snow' and 'blizzard' a fair amount... but don't know if the context I use it in is something that would put me on a watch list. ... like "it snowed again last night, a real blizzard."
 
Now, Cain and Able and 2600 had me confused, till I searched the terms.  ohhh 
 

 
Hey here's a few random words from 'the list' ...
 
maybe we could have a Song Challenge and see what interesting songs come out of it.
 
I started a new thread for it in the Music side of the forum under - "Song Challenge"     
 http://www.gmhcafe.ca/gforums/index.php?topic=542.new#new
 
Criteria:
 
 Use as many of the words as possible, in any order, with the song limited to 5 min.
deadline ( I suppose there should be one..) September 30/12
do it up any way you choose, any style.
 
and here's some words from the list:
 
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
  Attack
 Domestic security
 Drill
 Exercise
 Cops
  Prevention
 Response
 Recovery
  Flu
 Vaccine
 Grid
 Power
 Smart
  Black out
 Brown out
 Port
 Dock
 Bridge
   Hurricane
  Twister
  Earthquake
 Tremor
 Flood
 Storm
   Ice
 Stranded/Stuck
 Help
 Hail
 Wildfire
  Avalanche
  Shelter-in-place
  Snow
 Blizzard
 Sleet
 Mud slide or Mudslide
   Lightening
  Relief
      Cain and abel
     China
 Worm
 
this list practically writes itself!      
 
 I'll post a new thread and topic for it in the Music section under "Song Challenge". 
 
this could be fun!
 
The gmhCafe Song/Music Challenge (SMC)
http://www.gmhcafe.ca/gforums/index.php?topic=542.new#new