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> [The Patriot Act] contains many sunset provisions beginning December 31, 2005, approximately four years after its passage. Before the sunset date, an extensio
by jihadjihad 1y ago
> [The Patriot Act] contains many sunset provisions beginning December 31, 2005, approximately four years after its passage. Before the sunset date, an extension was passed for four years which kept most of the law intact. In May 2011, President Barack Obama signed the PATRIOT Sunset Extensions Act of 2011, which extended three provisions. These provisions were modified and extended until 2019 by the USA Freedom Act, passed in 2015. In 2020, efforts to extend the provisions were not passed by the House of Representatives, and as such, the law has expired.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act
- htoiertoi345345 1y ago"USA Freedom Act" We're truly living in Orwell's world.
- stavros 1y agoUniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ensuring Effective Discipline Over Monitoring Act. It's just an acronym bro, don't get all worked up about it, now let's go down, the Two Minutes' Hate is about to start.
- shaky-carrousel 1y agoWe're incredibly lucky the 'just an acronym' ended that way then. Had they named it the 'Joining and Reinforcing the Nation by Satisfying Liberties and Guaranteeing Efficient Control Over Surveillance' we would have ended with the JRN SLGECOS Act.
- stavros 1y agoApparently I forgot to close my sarcasm tag.
- lvass 1y agoStuff is so Orwellian that it really looks like a joke for those who do not know what USA Freedom Act means.
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- solid_fuel 1y agoI chuckled, at least. Seeing the rise in the amount of bots on YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, basically all the major and a lot of minor social networks over the last ~decade has really been something, too. Tons and tons of people with account names that all follow similar regex's saying the same things around the same time. I suppose it feels closer to Brave New World than 1984 but it's eerie, and those are just the accounts that stand out. I imagine the "premium propaganda" option from the companies and agencies providing the bot services are even harder to discern.
- lazide 1y agoReally, it’s right out of Ender’s Game IMO.
- _9ptr 1y agoYou can forget about liberties until you come up with a better acronym
- aspenmayer 1y agoWould you settle for a catchy motto, mayhap? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Free_or_Die https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Free_or_Die > "Live Free or Die" is the official motto of the U.S. state of New Hampshire, adopted by the state in 1945. It is possibly the best-known of all state mottos, partly because it conveys an assertive independence historically found in American political philosophy and partly because of its contrast to the milder sentiments found in other state mottos.
- sigma02 1y agoI suppose one must die, since living free is not an option. Note to self: stay out of New Hampshire.
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- mysticllama 1y agothere's dozens of us!
- sigma02 1y agoCome on, that is literally what "Live Free or Die" means!
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- ASalazarMX 1y agoIt's a deception, something that should have no place in law coding.
- ta1243 1y agoFor nearly quarter of a century.
- cortesoft 1y agoLonger than that. I feel like people have completely forgotten things like Iran-Contra, or the Gulf of Tonkin.
- nostrademons 1y agoOr, for that matter, that Orwell based 1984 off his experience writing propaganda for the British Ministry of Information during WW2.
- 93po 1y agoor that the CIA literally killed a sitting president
- int_19h 1y ago"I must say I believe, or fear, that taking the world as a whole these things are on the increase. Hitler, no doubt, will soon disappear, but only at the expense of strengthening (a) Stalin, (b) the Anglo-American millionaires and all sorts of petty fuhrers of the type of de Gaulle. All the national movements everywhere, even those that originate in resistance to German domination, seem to take non-democratic forms, to group themselves round some superhuman fuhrer (Hitler, Stalin, Salazar, Franco, Gandhi, De Valera are all varying examples) and to adopt the theory that the end justifies the means. Everywhere the world movement seems to be in the direction of centralised economies which can be made to ‘work’ in an economic sense but which are not democratically organised and which tend to establish a caste system. With this go the horrors of emotional nationalism and a tendency to disbelieve in the existence of objective truth because all the facts have to fit in with the words and prophecies of some infallible fuhrer. Already history has in a sense ceased to exist, ie. there is no such thing as a history of our own times which could be universally accepted, and the exact sciences are endangered as soon as military necessity ceases to keep people up to the mark. Hitler can say that the Jews started the war, and if he survives that will become official history. He can’t say that two and two are five, because for the purposes of, say, ballistics they have to make four. But if the sort of world that I am afraid of arrives, a world of two or three great superstates which are unable to conquer one another, two and two could become five if the fuhrer wished it. That, so far as I can see, is the direction in which we are actually moving, though, of course, the process is reversible."
- jordanb 1y agoWhenever leftists say that "Trump is a symptom of an illness that has been metastasizing for a long time" this is what we mean.
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- komali2 1y agoMy big ask is, was it always this stupid? Like, all these huge historical events and figures, did it all go down as stupidly and clownishly as the modern USA? Was there an early 20th century fascist Europe equivalent to a man named Big Balls being beat up by children and a fascist police action being triggered as a result? Was there a Napeolonic era equivalent to a media figure known for making light of school shootings, getting killed in a school shooting, a second after again making light of school shootings? Was George III as publicly and flagrantly fellated by the court as Trump is by the media still allowed into the White House? I feel like I can't possibly live in the stupidest era in world history so it makes me try to see other historical eras in a similar light - how can I reinterpret the past such that it also experienced a bunch of clownish nonsense?
- sdenton4 1y agoEvery generation gets the stupidest politics the world has ever seen... So far.
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- tempodox 1y ago> there’s no evil army here locking people up. Not what you meant, but that evil army is called ICE.
- rs186 1y agoIf the law has expired, how do they "expand" the law? I am confused. Did they refer to the wrong one?
- jdiff 1y agoI believe you have misread the comment. In 2015, it was expanded and extended until 2019. After that, it was allowed to expire and was not extended or expanded further.
- rs186 1y agoMy comment refers to the original news article: > The Treasury Is Expanding The Patriot Act To Attack Bitcoin Self Custody
- krferriter 1y ago"Acts" as they are passed by Congress are usually a huge collection of additions/deletions/modifications to existing law. And those changes can be unrelated and scattered across hundreds and hundreds of sections of existing statutes, each of which can have their own sunset clauses. So some of the things included in "The Patriot Act" expired, but parts are still active.
- semiquaver 1y agoThe patriot act is not really “a law” in the sense of being a concrete series of statements you can point to in today’s US Code. It’s more like a patch to a codebase. At the time it was passed it (like any statutory act of Congress) created and amended dozens of sections of the US code. Some of those provisions had expiration dates which have lapsed, but not all, and (apparently) not the sections this article discusses dealing with financial crimes.
- calibas 1y ago> In 2020, efforts to extend the provisions were not passed by the House of Representatives, and as such, the law has expired. The wording is confusing. Two provisions expired, not the entire Patriot Act. https://web.archive.org/web/20250306093943/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/us/politics/house-fisa-bill.html https://web.archive.org/web/20250306093943/https://www.nytim...
- bilbo0s 1y agoThe wording is confusing. Being confusing, I'm almost certain, was the entire point.
- nostrademons 1y agoThe Wikipedia article is quite confusing, and seems to imply that those two provisions expired because they were the only two provisions not sunsetted already. The table indicates that most of the law sunsetted on March of 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act#Section_expirations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act#Section_expiration... But then they say "The first act reauthorized all but two Title II provisions. Two sections were changed to sunset on December 31, 2009" But the first act was passed in 2005, and so it's unclear whether it reauthorized provisions only until 2006 or a longer term.
- calibas 1y agoI looked into this a little more, and these were the final two provisions of the Patriot Act, so the did law expire. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean a whole lot, as many of the provisions live on in the USA Freedom Act.
- virtue3 1y agoWas not aware of the USA Freedom Act details on it: Reauthorization of Other Patriot Act Provisions: The USA FREEDOM Act extended two other provisions from the Patriot Act that were set to expire: "Lone Wolf" Provision: Allows for surveillance on individual terrorists who may not be directly linked to a foreign power. "Roving Wiretap" Provision: Enables surveillance to follow a suspect even if they change their communication methods or devices. Everyone should be super clued in whenever the government chooses to classify something as 'terrorism' because of these provisions. There appeared to be a lot of "good things" associated with this Act but also... as things go. Not great things such as above.
- citizenpaul 1y agoAlso it dosent matter if it's expired anymore. It was kept on for 20+ Fing years. During that time it was used to permananly shred constitusional rights and human rights. They got what they wanted from it beyond their wildest dreams.
- LeoMessi10 1y agousername checks out?