No, it's about enabling complete surveillance of everything. For those who don't know, Lawrefareblog has always been pro-mass surveillance. They only started d

No, it's about enabling complete surveillance of everything. For those who don't know, Lawrefareblog has always been pro-mass surveillance. They only started doubting themselves a little when Trump won the election. But it seems they're back on the pro-mass surveillance horse now. > When we founded this site more than six years ago, I never in my wildest dreams imagined myself writing these words about a man who will take the oath of office as President of the United States. We began Lawfare on the assumption that the U.S. federal executive branch was a tool with which to confront national security threats. While I accepted that its manner of doing so might threaten other values—like civil liberties—or prove counterproductive in protecting national security goods, I never imagined I would confront the day when I ranked the President himself among the major threats to the security of the country. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161111/00230136015/long-time-mass-surveillance-defenders-freak-out-now-that-trump-will-have-control.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161111/00230136015/long-... Huh, no kidding? So a "bad" president could abuse the extensive powers that are given to him thoughtlessly to "fight crime and national secure threats"? It's only the argument privacy activists have always made. Lawfareblog seems to always work with the assumption that the government is always the "good guys" and therefore will never abuse the powers given to them. That is wrong.