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Patriot Act Bypasses Facebook Privacy
Geoffreyerffoeg writes "An article from the National Association of Colleges and Employers contains yet another horror story about a prospective hire's Facebook being checked — with a different twist. The interviewee had enabled privacy on his profile, '[b]ut, during the interview, something he was not prepared for happened. The interviewer began asking specific questions about the content on his Facebook.com listing and the situation became very awkward and uncomfortable. The son had thought only those he allowed to access his profile would be able to do so. But, the interviewer explained that as a state agency, recruiters accessed his Facebook account under the auspices of the Patriot Act.' How can a 'state agency' use the Patriot Act to subpoena a Facebook profile?"
Lesson 3. Stronger resistance against right-wing intrusiveness is warranted.
Oh, please. Do you really think that in a city, state, or other municipality that is run by officials elected by a majority liberal electorate, with agencies run by political appointees from that camp, that they (the folks hiring new people for even relatively sensitive jobs) would decide not to do background checks? Do you think that liberal-minded schools don't care about the backgrounds of people that will work with kids? Or with cash? Or with law-enforcement details? It's not "right-wing" to do basic fact finding about someone you're about to put in a position of power.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
"Your papers please, Mein Herr" - classic lines from US movies and British movies that let us know we were in the presense of evil Nazi minions. It was used to remind us what we were fighting for, freedom from a dictatorial government where your every move was noted, logged, filed and cross referenced for ties to subversive elements in society. How things have changed.
Yah. Because you get asked for your papers on a daily basis. And the CIA is building giant ovens in the arizona deserts.
People like you truly disgust me. You wouldn't know real evil if it bit you on the ass. You live in a country which gaurantees you almost complete freedom, and yet seem to get a hard-on from comparing it to a fascist tyrany.
OH MY GOD! PRISONS! FOR, LIKE, INCARCERATING CRIMINALS! With such horrible conditions that each prisoner is provided with a copy of the Quaran and a prayer rug. Each cell has an arrow pointing east. And prisoners gain weight within days of arrival.
Oh yeah, deffinitely compareable to a concentration camp where prisoners were starved, gassed, and worked to death.
I'd like to poletly suggest you now fuck off and go fist yourself.