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Will Trump's Presidency Bring More Surveillance To The US? (scmagazine.com)
An anonymous reader reports that Donald Trump's upcoming presidency raises a few concerns for the security industry:
"Some of his statements that industry professionals find troubling are his calls for 'closing parts of the Internet', his support for mass surveillance, and demands that Apple should have helped the FBI break the encrypted communications of the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone," writes SC Magazine. One digital rights activist even used Trump's surprise victory as an opportunity to suggest President Obama begin "declassifying and dismantling as much of the federal government's unaccountable, secretive, mass surveillance state as he can -- before Trump is the one running it... he has made it very clear exactly how he would use such powers: to target Muslims, immigrant families, marginalized communities, political dissidents, and journalists."
Edward Snowden's lawyer says "I think many Americans are waking up to the fact we have created a presidency that is too powerful," and the Verge adds that Pinboard CEO Maciej Ceglowski is now urging tech sites to stop collecting so much data. "According to Ceglowski, the only sane response to a Trump presidency was to get rid of as much stored user data as possible. 'If you work at Google or Facebook,' he wrote on Pinboard's Twitter account, 'please start a meaningful internal conversation about giving people tools to scrub their behavioral data.'"
Could a Trump presidency ultimately lead to a massive public backlash against government surveillance?
Edward Snowden's lawyer says "I think many Americans are waking up to the fact we have created a presidency that is too powerful," and the Verge adds that Pinboard CEO Maciej Ceglowski is now urging tech sites to stop collecting so much data. "According to Ceglowski, the only sane response to a Trump presidency was to get rid of as much stored user data as possible. 'If you work at Google or Facebook,' he wrote on Pinboard's Twitter account, 'please start a meaningful internal conversation about giving people tools to scrub their behavioral data.'"
Could a Trump presidency ultimately lead to a massive public backlash against government surveillance?
Here's Glenn Greenwald's editorial on it. Dems were OK with surveillance and unchecked government power starting the day Obama was nominated.
You say "typical liberal" as if that's a genuine belief system and not just a storytelling style designed to persuade a specific subculture.
IMHO this is the result of decades of people saying "don't throw your vote away by voting third party."
And they are all correct, in our First Past the Post election system, you ARE throwing away your vote by doing that...
If you want to change it, you have to change the election system.
Trump likes digging up dirt on people and threatened to put his political rival in jail (let's see if he was lying). This is exactly what people were warning about.
I guess that's why people are sitting in US military prisons for doing less than Hillary right. Never mind that team Obama and the IRS actually went after people for not having the right viewpoint. Or that in multiple states that democrats and AG's wanted to prosecute people for daring to have a point of view contrary to the orthodoxy on global warming.
Plus, they are one state away from having enough power to add or delete amendments to the Constitution.
It takes 38 (3/4ths of 50) states to ratify an amendment. Republicans don't control 37 state legislatures. It's 33.
Hopefully we can get a balanced budget amendment anyway.
Clinton voted to invade Afghanistan and we wrecked that country - even more so than it was before, which is quite a feat.
She voted to invade Iraq and we wrecked that country - killing hundreds of thousands of civilians directly and indirectly.
She recommended invading Libya and we ruined that country.
Her next step would be military intervention in Syria. Because we have had such a good track record over there.
What's your definition of psychopathy?
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
Trump is a totally different matter. Democrats and most of the media will never support anything he proposes even if it was a democrat issue, and many Republicans don't support him either. If he does anything out of the ordinary he will be impeached faster than the news media can say "Trump is Grand Wizard Adolf Stalin."
I've seen that line of thinking before and I think it's wishful thinking. The Republicans that were against Trump did so only because they thought he was damaging their election chances. But Trump won. And now Republicans will line up behind him to support whatever he wants. There might be some intraparty squabbling, but that will only be over the scale of an idea. As for impeachment, that'll never happen. Democrats won't have a majority in the House anytime soon to force the issue and Republicans won't impeach one of their one.
She clearly broke the law and others in the same position have gone to jail. She isn't in jail because she's "too big to fail". People with wealth and power don't go to prison in this country except in extraordinary circumstances.
Repeating a lie a lot does not make it true, no matter how often. Comey explained in detail why he did not recommend any action. Go read what he said, but in short, they could not prove intent, because there was none.