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Snowden Documents: CSE Tracks Millions of Downloads Daily
Advocatus Diaboli writes Canada's electronic spy agency sifts through millions of videos and documents downloaded online every day by people around the world, as part of a sweeping bid to find extremist plots and suspects, CBC News has learned. Details of the Communications Security Establishment project dubbed 'Levitation' are revealed in a document obtained by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and recently released to CBC News. Under Levitation, analysts with the electronic eavesdropping service can access information on about 10 to 15 million uploads and downloads of files from free websites each day, the document says.
... and they lied.
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms? Not in Harper's Canada.
How long until our favorite corporations the RIAA/MPAA try and subpoena the download records from the government on the grounds the government knows which IP addresses downloaded copywrong material and therefore should stop hiding the criminals?
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Actually their target is further than that
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To illustrate what I mean, let's look at what TFA says
Are they truly looking for "extremist plots and suspects"?
No
Then what they are looking for?
They are looking for potential targets that they deem "dangerous". No, not terrorists but those amongst the people who are NOT sheeples!
You see, those fascists (to put them in a milder term will be an injustice, they are fascists afterall) are not afraid of sheeples. In fact, they WANT all the people to become sheeples so that they can get absolute control over them
What the fascists are afraid, very afraid of, is those amongst us who steadfastly REFUSE to become a sheeple, who instead will use our own brain to think, rather than delegate the thinking to "somebody else", ie, the authority
That is what makes those fucking fascists antsy --- they can't have that, but current laws still do not allow them to pull out all the non-sheeples to the street and shoot them
So they do the next best ... to identify the non-sheeples so that, when it comes the day they can pull people out to the street and carry out summary execution, they would know who to shoot
That is ultimately WHAT they are doing today ... identifying us, closely monitoring us, categorizing us, ... and ultimately, know who they need to eliminate, and where to get those 'trouble makers'
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
That's the problem isn't it?
Collect everything means that all your intelligence is hidden by piles and piles of cat memes.
Because the Internet isn't a series of tubes, it's a single cat with infinite meowing heads and infinite tails to pull.
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BMO
I think you're overthinking it. Look at what the FBI does. They find some dumb disillusioned guy down on his luck, maybe an ex-con or something but nothing serious, and try to ram bomb making components down his throat until he acquiesces and follows the plan they give him to fill a truck full of fertilizer to blow up city hall. The guy makes the purchase and parks the fake bomb, and when he gets out of the truck he's arrested and sent to prison... not because he would have blown up a building, but because he was so stupid that he didn't know not to trust the guys trying to set him up by badgering the hell out of him until he gives in. Counter-terrorism task force adds a notch to their belt, the President has a talking point about another averted attack, and the poor schmuck who was effectively harmless already because of his stupidity gets to die in prison
Collect everything means that all your intelligence is hidden by piles and piles of cat memes.
If you RTFA, Canada's intelligence agency says in their document that they need to find the needle "terrorist files" in a haystack of downloaded episodes of Glee. They literally make that reference.
And neither did the people who did the killing in China. The idea, inherited from Lenin, was to have a small vanguard of professional revolutionaries guarding the masses - in your terminology, "sheeples" - under absolute authority of the Party. Mao and Stalin then took this idea to its logical conclusion.
What I'm saying is that calling people "sheeples" is inherently anti-democratic. You can't trust sheeples, after all. Also, no society can survive unless the majority of its members stay put most of the time, which seems to be the going definition of "sheeple". And so you can at most let them play at ruling themselves when nothing's at stake - but as soon as there's trouble on the horizon, it's time for the shepherds to take control. Which they did in China, and are trying to do in the US. The results speak for themselves.
It's a fine example of how cultural memes perpetuate themselves, even when it'd be better they didn't. Much as you might hate the Chinese government, you still carry its - for a lack of better word - spirit with you. And there's no easy way to get rid of it.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
The bodies at the Charlie Hebdo massacre were not even cool when phonies like you were already going ballistic about those poor non-violent Muslims that idiots were inevitably going to put in the same basket as terrorists. Not a word about the dead people.
You know what? Fuck you and your bigoted ass.
http://instamun.org/frances-ne...
And fuck you from Charlie Hebdo editors too. The great "march" of who's who of the anti-free-speech bigots. One of the editors told them that they are NOT Charlie, and that they should fuck off. Instead they use that criminal act, just like you did, to justify their own agenda and viewpoints.
Why didn't you bother bringing up the idiots and criminals that actually are a danger?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
or dozens and dozens of incidents where someone non-muslim went on a rampage in some school, workplace or similar.
But oh no, let's easy gang up on one group because we can identify them more easily even if they have *nothing* to do with the criminals.
If you feel the need to be outraged, why don't you think of those women that are sold in the market in the Islamic State, or those 2-hour fake marriages just pronounced to let "freedom fighters" rape women legally? Why don't you defend people who are real victims?
Really? I put *ALL* bigots in the same box. Be that the ISIL bigots, or bigots like Jan Morgan.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015...
or Nazis in Greece and elsewhere, or "* liberation *" thugs in Africa or "settlers" extremists in Israel,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
and *you*. Hell, maybe you'll look at reality and change your views and go out of that box of bigotry and hatred. Who knows.
Anyway, the *real* victims of ISIL are people living in that area. Haven't you thought of that?? It's not *you* and your irrational fear of the "evil muslims" and general racism that is the victim of the ISIL biggots. It's the millions of regular people that got displaced or killed, who just happen to be muslim.
Sir,
I do agree with you that we do need hope, but we must *NOT* forget the fact that 'hoping' ain't gonna do us, or anybody else, any good, especially when what is happening now, from top down (well, the governments are *ON THE TOP* of the people, no matter which government, no matter which nation)
Nowadays governments treat their citizens with contemp
They suspect their citizens so much that they actually take steps to ensure that every single thing their own citizen does must be checked, categorized, and actions must be taken on whoever they suspect (for whatever reason)
Hope in itself is no longer sufficient to fight those fascist, my friend
We no longer live in the 1960's, Sir
We no longer live in a world where the government listens to the people
No man. We are living in the world where the governments DEMAND to be respected, or else
That's the reality all of us are living in, no matter if you live in Canada or China or Saudi Arabia or America or Great Britain, it's all the same --- you, a citizen, better be a sheeple, or we will mark you, we will follow you, we will watch your every single move
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !