3 ms·
Like the first amendment is supposed to prevent the NSA from domestic snooping? [0] All based on the patriot act which is still in effect to this day. That's t
by freeflight 8y ago
Like the first amendment is supposed to prevent the NSA from domestic snooping? [0]
All based on the patriot act which is still in effect to this day. That's the "beauty" about this: If you make the cause big enough, then barely anybody will mind the eroded civil rights. If you resist, you will be labeled an unpatriotic "terrorist sympathizer" who doesn't want to keep the country safe, a de-facto traitor to the cause.
[0] https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2017/11/nsa-internet-surveillance-under-section-702-violates-first-amendment https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2017/11/nsa-internet-survei...
- duxup 8y agoI don't think a first amendment challenge as far as what you say on social media goes has anything to do with a very non traditional legal argument that NSA collecting involves the first amendment.
- freeflight 8y agoBut there's still the, very traditional, legal argument of it also breaking the fourth [0], and that on a rather massive scale. Which the eef link also pointed out. No matter how you frame this, these constitutional boundaries are not as high as many US Americans like to pretend. Because if those boundaries are not enforced, they ain't worth the paper they are written on, leaving the door wide open to further erode these constitutional rights. [0] https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2671&context=facpub https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...