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How could anybody cite examples when there's zero oversight, including going through a special court system? We would have no way of knowing if agents are usin
by zug_zug 3y ago
How could anybody cite examples when there's zero oversight, including going through a special court system?
We would have no way of knowing if agents are using this to surveil their exes, dig up dirt on political candidates and sell it, watch people screw in a tesla for fun, dig up blackmail material on politicians to make sure the next version passes, etc.
We're just left with the blanket question "Do you trust us to hold ourselves back?" And I think that's where people who know the historical record answer "No", from both parties.
- shrimp_emoji 3y agoIt's sad it takes a rogue chaos-aligned outsider like Trump to do things like not renew Patriot Act provisions (which Trump threatened to veto and let expire). Establishment Democrats and Republicans alike have a raging hard-on for eroding our freedoms and expanding the surveillance state.