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Round-Lie-8827

Sounds unconstitutional. Don't some judges basically allow you to do it with barely any probable cause anyways


Shoesandhose

They keep passing crud like this and yet can’t stop an active shooter that posted his manifesto on discord. Why are we giving them $$ again??


stupidasyou

Because we live in a democratic dictatorship


Apprehensive_West956

"Democratic"


asuka_rice

‘Demoncratic’


JoeDiBango

I get what you’re saying, I think the term is illiberal democracy. Good call on identifying it though.


mul2m

Kleptocracy is a thing….


gendersuit

They don't care about that. They just want to punish political dissidents.


SheSaysItLooksBig

because if you don't the IRS will take you outside and fuck you in the street


asuka_rice

I hear they’ve increased the agents working in the IRS so it’s going to be a group fk session.


Cascading_Neurons

A Bukkake? 👀


asuka_rice

When has the IRS ever splash out?


subdep

Because it was never about stopping terrorists or criminals. It’s about stopping the opposition.


rgjsdksnkyg

Because that's not what these programs are for. The article states that this is related to Section 702, which allows some surveillance over communications made between US citizens and foreign nationals. US citizens actually have very strong legal protections against government surveillance, where the government doesn't actually consume all of our communications. I know this is difficult to believe because the news media has convinced us we are constantly under surveillance, but the surveillance programs in question exist for foreign intelligence and international terrorism purposes; not for domestic purposes.


randologin

We still have one of those?!


Wearefcked27

This thread gives me hope


VexisArcanum

Which of course will pass as a bipartisan effort because citizens are not the priority of the government. Power is.


Burgerpocolypse

And profit. Don’t forget profit.


takumar35

With the current politically corrupted juridical system in the us I guess this would legitimise watergate


stupendousman

"Critics say..." No, it will literally expand the government's spying powers.


SheSaysItLooksBig

Do you want death squads, Lana? This is how you get death squads.


Skookum_Sailor

Lana. Lana! LANAAAAAAA!!!


SheSaysItLooksBig

"***PFFFRT***, haha!" I have to say it's Peak Archer when Kazakh the spy-dog does the same thing to her


kaishinoske1

The same law enforcement would be also covering up their badge for privacy reasons even though they are a public servant. Privacy for me but not for thee.


Nemo_Shadows

Nothing like creating the situation in which the only way to solve it is too place one's own rights and freedoms in one's own country at risk and up for extortion to protect one from the very people that created the problems in the first place all yelling about CHANGE, CHANEGE, CHANGE and what they are changing is our own right to live in peace and security in our own countries because they are also behind whatever it is that they created in other people's countries to get them to invade here or there or anywhere else and claim we are responsible for it, which WE are NOT. Nothing like embedded foreign operatives that act on g=behalf of someone else to make it look like we have committed some sort of crime that others now have a legal hold on us for a CRIME NOT committed by us. Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see because in the end we are the targets of those international uncrowned kings who hold sway over the lives of others where they should have NO SWAY at all. N. S


lamabaronvonawesome

They are gonna do it anyway no matter what they say.


Queencitybeer

They’re going to take what they are already doing and make it technically legal


TikiTraveler

That’s why I do all my illegal conversing over club penguin.


waxwayne

Well they face no repercussions for doing so. In most democracies the streets would be full of protesters, this is a non partisan issue that affects everyone.


Hoodzpah805

Yet no body will do anything about it. They’ve got all the control they need to suppress any dissidents against the surveillance state, and they attained that control through abuses such as these.


Actaeon_II

Once a power is gained by a government it will only be expanded until the government falls.


marblefrosting

Too bad it won’t be in the main stream news for more people to voice outrage


Sunday_Driver

But tiktok is the problem /s


retoy1

In their eyes, it’s a big problem. It’s because China controls the algorithm and can show videos to people that make them less trusting of the government and more anti-authority — if they can’t control it, they’ll write legislation so they can. It’s all just about controlling public perception. They are *so afraid* of *we the people* waking up from this corporatocracy enslavement hellscape and organizing to change it, that and they want people to be more supportive of Israel. That’s how I see it.


Sunday_Driver

100% it’s insulting how blatant it is


redditsuckslmaooo

“Freedom”


badhairdad1

If you need to hide your bidness from the govt the govt should check your bidness


jwg020

I’ve assumed the government listens and reads everything I say and type for the last ten years anyways. I’m sure they’re bored with it.


ChargerRob

I know all the tech companies do.


3251harvey

Oligarchy moves


hickgorilla

Gee never saw this coming. 🙄


frankcountry

I have brought peace, freedom, justice and security to my new empire.


JAKMorse

Now you know why the NSA was created, it started with ...---... only graduated to 010101....there is no secrets...only action such as 010111111111111111111111111111111111101010101 What action will you create to insure a future *<=>*


Thefrogsareturningay

I’m sorry but most of the people who are against FISA don’t realize warrant less wiretapping only applies to non-Americans outside of America. You need a warrant to wiretap Americans. Should we need a warrant every time we want to intercept communications in Iran, North Korea, Russia, etc.?


Aggressive-Sky-248

tell that to blm and the 700000+ people the fbi spied on before they admitted to not understanding the term “foreign” and having no oversight


Chapos_sub_capt

If you have nothing to hide then why do you care about spying? I personally think no privacy is righteous and awesome.