Synonyms for dragnet
ˈdrægˌnɛtdrag·net

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1. dragnetnoun

   a system of coordinated measures for apprehending (criminals or other individuals)

   "caught in the police dragnet"

   Synonyms:
   trawl net, trawl

2. trawl, dragnet, trawl netnoun

   a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths

   Synonyms:
   setline, spiller, trawl, trawl line, trawl net, trotline

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1. James Scott:

   Dragnet surveillance capitalists such as Facebook, Comcast, AT&T and Google, unfortunately, supply these manipulating forces with an endless supply of metadata for this information war against the American and European public.

2. James Scott:

   You are a product to dragnet surveillance capitalists like Google, Facebook, Comcast and Verizon. Your ideas are rarely your own, rather you are little more than a pawn to their perception steering initiatives to get you to read, believe and buy what they put in front of you. The first step to breaking out of this faux reality matrix is to stop using Google, Bing, Yahoo, Comcast and Facebook.

3. Chris Rufo:

   Next step: we need to turn the screw on Attorney General Garland, who secretly colluded with outside groups to mobilize the FBI against political opponents and whose family benefits financially from CRT in schools, we must hammer him every day until he calls off the FBI dragnet.

4. Matt Cagle:

   This proposal invites dragnet surveillance that history shows will disproportionately harm immigrants, communities of color, and activists, and it invites profit-seeking firms to violate Facebook and Twitter rules designed to keep users safe, treating social media users like suspects won't make us more safe, but it will make us less free.

5. James Scot:

   The gaping wound in America’s national security is without a doubt, the unregulated dragnet surveillance capitalists.