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You said "It's because the government isn't siphoning everybody's information" which is a blanket statement, and now you're limiting that statement to being v
by site-packages1 6y ago
You said
"It's because the government isn't siphoning everybody's information"
which is a blanket statement, and now you're limiting that statement to being via PRISM, which is a tightening of the requirements you were talking about. The link you posted states that the government is siphoning Americans' data via NSL letters and the like, which is true. I do not know enough about PRISM to say one way or another, but I can see in the last few comments you're thrashing on this.
- lern_too_spel 6y agoNo, I said very specifically that PRISM was a non-story, despite what Snowden clearly believed. NSL letters [sic] are for metadata collection. Of those, Snowden released documents about a single illegal extant program using NSLs, which was phone metadata collection. If he had understood the documents he was releasing, he would have pushed that story instead of PRISM.
- site-packages1 6y agoRespectfully, I was quoting you in my post, and don't think I was taking it out of context.
- lern_too_spel 6y agoThat quoted statement is true and is especially true with regard to PRISM, which is the context. That PRISM isn't what Snowden claimed it was is my main point. Do you disagree with any of what I have said here?