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This is was the special secret FISA court was supposed to be - a check and balance for the people vs the overlords given unconstitutional search and seizure cap
by throwfaraway52 5y ago
This is was the special secret FISA court was supposed to be - a check and balance for the people vs the overlords given unconstitutional search and seizure capabilities.
Unfortunately you will never be able to argue again for the whole 'it just for [insert horrible thing here] - we can trust the overlords, and there is even a 'verify oversight board for the people'
why? because we've already seen it used not for foreign terror, but also drugs and sex and speech. It's been abused and used as an excuse by yahoo, microsoft and all the others.
Even when dreamhost fought back for a bit, there is no way to fight it truthfully (they have all the data recorded already, just easier and faster to get it with a digitally delivered request.
Obama's peeps used it for lesser things, trumps people used it for lesser things, the anti-trump people used it for lesser things. It's been used and abused against the people and the politicians.
Even when several resigned from the citizen oversight positions - a sign that shit is totally wrong - nothing changed.
The whole thing reeks so bad it's made the effbeeeye stink from the top to their lawyers even. Some of the saddest things in our history imho.
Now they want more data. It's like a group of babysitters that have already killed several wanting more access to more babies.