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Note how many of the senators who voted to expand surveillance programs and the NSA became suddenly very concerned for privacy. They just wanted to try and dunk

• fullshark 9y ago
  And the guardian is pissed that the dunks weren't fierce enough I guess. I'm not sure what they expected, I thought it was like every congressional hearing ever.
• bonestamp2 9y ago
  And cover their own ass against contributions he made to their campaigns... "I was hard on him so his money doesn't buy my influence."
• uses 9y ago
  > Note how many of the senators who voted to expand surveillance programs and the NSA became suddenly very concerned for privacy Ok but even from their perspective, and I'm trying to not give too much credit here, but there is a difference between giving specific, authorized government agencies a blank check to spy on whoever they want to in order to achieve their mission of national security, and giving a blank check to any company that wants to collect unlimited information and surveillance on its users in order to accomplish whatever goal it desires. They're very different questions even though they both involve personal privacy.