A slowly boiled frog...

@Suzianne said
Wealthy people are better able to pay people off.

@wildgrass said
This issue of mass government surveillance actually is opposed by both libertarians and liberals on opposite ends of the political spectrum. The only folks I can see who support it are the authoritarian "law and order" types who thump their chests and say "I ain't got nothing to hide" while ignoring all the obvious harms that come with these surveillance programs.

And yo ...[text shortened]... t to talk about gender? Again? You're obsessed. Get off this thread with your weirdo hyperfixations.

@mike69 said
Only time mentioned in this thread and I was answering a nut job. I think someone’s panties are in a wad. I think you need to crawl back under something and relax.

@wildgrass
You noticed you like the clown yesterday that cried about name calling, he overlooked the thousands of times libs did this, no comparison. You are overlooking the endless comments like this on your crybaby side😉.

@YEAH-BOY said
Stop thinking. The longer you think the dumber you get. You write like a 5 yr. old.

@mike69 said
@wildgrass
You noticed you like the clown yesterday that cried about name calling, he overlooked the thousands of times libs did this, no comparison. You are overlooking the endless comments like this on your crybaby side😉.

This will keep getting worse until voters and taxpayers stop allowing your governments to purchase and deploy surveillance technology at this scale and in the absence of reasonable safeguards.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4709502/warrantless-surveillance-fourth-amendment-chatrie/

One more news story on this, kind of a mixed bag of bad news because the government is forcing companies to provide them with the user data of law-abiding reporters without a warrant, and good news I guess that politicians are finally listening to their constituents that they don't want to be spied on constantly by the government...

The request from the Oregon senator Ron Wyden and the representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington seen by the Guardian comes amid mounting scrutiny over the way the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently used its power to issue administrative summonses related to customs matters to make extraordinary unilateral demands for information. They sent their request to the government accountability office (GAO), the non-partisan congressional watchdog.

The Guardian reported this week that Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the investigative arm of the DHS, has used the summonses to secretly obtain six months’ worth of telephone records for Georgia Fort, a Minneapolis journalist. In one particularly stunning episode, it issued an administrative summons to Google requesting information on the YouTube accounts of Fort and Don Lemon after a judge had twice rejected a search warrant application for the information, telling the government Fort and Lemon needed to have a chance to contest the request.