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House Panel Advances Bill on Key Surveillance Measure (axios.com)
The House Intelligence Committee approved a bill Friday along party lines that would reauthorize a central surveillance law, the Washington Post reports. From a report: It does change the law -- known as Section 702 -- but doesn't satisfy surveillance reform advocates, including in the tech industry. The law is used to authorize the surveillance of electronic communications by foreign nationals abroad, but advocates worry about the programs picking up communications involving Americans as well.
This. Democrat or Republican rule, it's six of one, half dozen of the other. No real difference except agenda. They all want the same control. We, the people, cede control to government in the name of "security", and look what this has wrought. Since 9-11, the Internet is a different animal, travel is untenable, everyone is up in your grill. I'm surprised there is not yet a national ID card.
For years people decried "we're heading for socialism!". I told them, no, not even--we're headed for facism. The recent election has merely introduced the next level of this progression. The unholy alliance between big government and corporations is only placing the wedge between them and us citizens. A man cannot even head down to the corner store and buy something without you bank, carrier, apps, etc. know where you are, what you bought, whom you may have met. This is only going to grow more pronounced because the average person is simply apathetic. They've got their entertainment, their food, their pleasures, and their faces solidly within the glow of their electronic leash handsets. Bread and circuses. We're doomed...
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