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Big difference between the IRS and random friends of the President. Congressional Acts is one
by preciousoo 2y ago
Big difference between the IRS and random friends of the President. Congressional Acts is one
- pembrook 2y agoFederal government can audit and wiretap citizens, citizens should be able to audit and wiretap the Federal government.
- catlifeonmars 2y agoI’d prefer it if random citizens don’t have access to my personal information, that happens to be stored in federal government systems. Especially without any guarantees or regulations around the access.
- pembrook 2y agoBad news, there's a spreadsheet of every Americans SSN, Residential Address, and more widely available with a bit of googling. It's currently being passed around Lagos on zip drives as we speak, and has been for years.
- preciousoo 2y agoGood old security by full data disclosure. Are you available for CISO positions by any chance? Your methods are revolutionary
- dgfitz 2y agoThat is unfortunate. The point was refuted so you attack the messenger.
- preciousoo 2y ago> Good old security by full data disclosure
- barkerja 2y agoYour position is any citizen should be able to access the private information of any other citizen? Because that is in essence what "wiretapping the Federal government" would lead to. Personal privacy aside, how are secrets imperative to national security protected if you allow full audits by any American citizen?
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- pembrook 2y agoThat's not what I said. Musk is roughly as democratically elected as the average IRS bureaucrat (arguably more so, since the guy auditing you most certainly never appeared on the campaign trail), so I view it as a wash.
- skyyler 2y agoWhich is a good reason we don't have average IRS bureaucrats behind the resolute desk, right?
- vlovich123 2y agoI agree as long as all of that flows through the courts, since by law that’s what’s required of the federal government. The FOIA mechanism is the mechanism we have today to audit and wiretap the government although it’s generally quite weak. That’s NOT what’s happening here.