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Retroactive Immunity Proposed for Telcos Who Share Private Data

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the best-intentions dept.

quanticle writes "The government has proposed giving retroactive immunity to telephone companies for giving personal data to the government, even if such requests are later found to be illegal."

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  1. I bet Nixon would feel really dumb now by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Informative

    All he had to do is making snooping legal if there's some way to mask it as the "fight against communism". And since those red bellied Dems are half way to communism anyway...

    Why does everyone seemingly accept any kind of illegal action as long as it can somehow be called the "fight against terror"? Why do people accept this kind of BS from the people who allegedly work FOR them?

    Politicians are our employees. We put them there. If they don't work as intended, fire them!

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    We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
  2. What should happen is impeachment of Cheney and Jr by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Bush administration is so corrupt that it is difficult for one person even to summarize all the corruption. But I tried: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy

  3. Re:I welcome by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 2, Informative
    You don't know much about fascism either, do you? You've probably seen it also called "corporatism", and decided that it equates to the "rule of corporations". Well, it doesn't - and the "corporations to which the original fascist term "corporatism" refers are not like what we call "corporations" today at all. The closest that would come to a fascist corporation would be a medieval guild.

    Setting that aside, GP was actually right. In a fascist state, the state is above the corporations, not the other way around. Which is not at all surprising, given that the fascist motto is "Everything for the State, nothing outside the State". Fascism is really nothing more than statism taken to the extreme for the sake of itself. In that sense, there isn't anything fascist about today's USA (or any other Western country). At best, you can complain about signs of authoritarianism and/or totalitarianism.