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US Mining Data Directly From 9 Silicon Valley Companies
Rick Zeman writes "Hot on the heels of Verizon's massive data dump to NSA comes news of 'PRISM' where The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person's movements and contacts over time. This program, established in 2007, includes major companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook...and more."
And what would you expect them to say? IT WAS A SECRET SPYING PROGRAM! Of course, if they were complicit in wholesale spying on Americans domestically, they are going to officially deny knowledge of it. Hell, the PR drones issuing the statements ACTUALLY BELIEVE their respective companies weren't spying on people for the government. You act like their denial actually proves something. If any company actually admitted to it, I'd have more respect for them.
GOVERNMENT IS MY FRIEND.
I LOVE GOVERNMENT.
Every government official more important to me than anybody I ever knew in my life.
The State is the only true judge of character, our moral compass, our guiding star.
The politicians know best what is best for everybody and we must obey because they are wise and we are not, so we must listen to everything they say and do as they say.
The mass media is the only true source of real information and whatever we are told in the mass media is what we must follow.
The President is a kind person that only wants the best for his children that we are, we must listen to his words and do as he teaches us, he is wise and all knowing (really, he is all knowing and if you don't do as he says, well)
You can't handle the truth.