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Why don't we got one step deeper and blame media for publishing and making a big deal of Snowden revelations or even a step further and blame people for believi
by TrainedMonkey 13y ago
Why don't we got one step deeper and blame media for publishing and making a big deal of Snowden revelations or even a step further and blame people for believing media.
When put that way it is quite clear that Snowden is not anymore at fault than media or people.
- blisterpeanuts 13y agoYes, I agree. Maybe the FISA law should forbid the press from even reporting on these things. That would be consistent with their rationalization for muzzling the tech companies who give up our data. After all, the bad guys now know where not to store their data. Heck let's just have the government take over internet and shut down all private websites. Total information control. That'll stop terrorism!
- josu 13y agoIt's actually the US Government's fault for making it mandatory for people to learn to read. There, full circle.
- saraid216 13y agoFucking liberals and their fancy "education policies". You know who likes education? China. Fucking communists.
- sitkack 13y agoThere is already a "war on" education, reading is fine so is arithmetic, independent and creative thought is real criminal. What we need is a solid foundation of the basics, w/o any of that pesky high level stuff.
- logicchains 13y ago"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read." - Mark Twain
- lern_too_spel 13y agoIt's really The Guardian's fault for completely botching the PRISM reporting. They thought DITU (a department of the FBI) was a server and from that misunderstanding came to the ridiculous conclusion that the tech companies gave the NSA a backdoor into their systems.
- nl 13y agoThis has been a problem, but it is comparatively minor. Even without this misunderstanding trust in US companies is broken because they aren't allowed to talk about what they do and do not do for national security agencies. The fact that the US can and has used its warrant powers to force US companies to comply with spying directives is a bigger problem. The fact that the US is stopping US companies talking about how often secret warrants are served is a bigger problem. The fact that the US has subverted security processes put in place by US companies is a bigger problem.
- lern_too_spel 13y agoEvery country in the world has used its warrant powers to force companies to comply with spying directives because every country in the world has its equivalent of an FBI to execute wiretaps on people with a warrant. Every country in the world's spying agencies subvert security systems. The GCHQ seems to do that more than anybody else according to the leaks so far. The only thing these companies weren't allowed to report was the number of NSLs and FISA requests they received, but now they can in broad ranges of 1000.
- deveac 13y agoA relatively minor error in an extremely large body of quality reporting on an immensely important topic. On the balance The Guardian deserves many accolades for their reporting in this area.
- lern_too_spel 13y agoRelatively minor? They claimed that the companies were allowing the US government to read anybody's email and view anybody's Skype videos without a court order. That seems like a pretty major mistake to me. Worse, Spencer Ackerman made that same error reporting for The Guardian just last week. Their reporting has been astonishingly bad.