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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.
It's legal: You said so when it was Obama tapping Trump. It will be legal when it's Trump tapping Warren.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
All this tells me is the definition, act and collection is now 'more legal' on paper. Some bill with words on it isn't going to make me put blinders on --- there just there to make the general population feel good at the end of the day that it isn't going on at the magnitude or level it is; it's still always happening at a level beyond what Snowdon exposed and then some and, unfortunately, it will continue.
Can't really get all that upset, all of us that use any sort of free service online or any amount of social media anything have been 'the product' in every faction of our lives for years, and can't start raising your pitch forks and chucking your molotov cocktails at the White House fence, if you're not willing to do it in Mountain View, Cupertino and Melno Park as well.
Be more honest and get to the point, right in the title:
All Data Recorded Indefinitely Act
I am continuing to push several of my CONgress critters to change some of our bills. In particular, I would like it to be that anything that is CLEAR TEXT, either saved on a system or sent over the net, is fair game for American intelligence. The reason is that it is similar to sending a postcard. It is also the fact that China and Russia also have easy access to this so should ours. /.
Then anything that is ENCRYPTED means that there is an ACTIVE attempt to block others from seeing the data. As such, we then require a warrant for our intel world to see the data (basically decrypt it).
If we pass this, it will no doubt anger a number of ppl here because it gave America's intel world the same carte blanche that the rest of the world have. This will no doubt cause MS, Google, Yahoo, etc to push through encryption on nearly everything.
At the same time with this bill, I am pushing for USPO to offer up personal digital keys that are FULLY VETTED (i.e. like passport, pix and fingerprint) and they would then have a distributed network of the key-servers. And when it is trivial for somebody to obtain a single digital-key, then e-mail, blogs, etc will become not just secured, but will also be less spam, and BS that we see even in in
With this approach, it will really push for the world to encrypt our data.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
They in fact protect no one.
Your President can kill at will by drone strike and you claim to be a good people.
SHAME.
Remember this could have been stopped this with allowing someone other than the Shillary Clinton (lock her up) to run. Instead they BROKE the law and COLLUDED against the socialist Bernie Sanders to undermine his popalarity. Remember democrat party also brought to power Mike Flynn who has now been charged with lying to FBI. Shillary Clinton is the next dominow to fall in that crazy conspirasy theory. I am American and even I can see that Democrat party is to blame. This is why I donate regular to Trump 2020 and NRA. Protect our American freedom, always vote the Republican side and end sanctions against mother Russia.
For years people decried "we're heading for socialism!". I told them, no, not even--we're headed for facism.
Sorry to pop your bubble, but Fascism is a form of Socialism. Literally.
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Seems the U.S. funded intel agencies are gonna do whatever the fuck they want to anyway. This bill, whether repealed or sustained, is moot in reality.
We need to bring the morals of these agencies into check if we want real change. Hopefully Snowden, Klein & others have done this to an extent. It sucks that these types of acts are what makes the most difference.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
In case anyone wants to talk about the actual bill, as opposed to just cramming their nose up some politician's ass, here's what the bill changed.
First, a quick review of what sectionnot702 is. Section 702 relates to eavesdropping on foreign communications. Programs under 702 are not to be used to target Americans. When one party to a conversation is an American, their identity is to be masked, referring to them as "person A", "person B", etc. So the record would show a conversation between Putin, Ahmadinejad, and Person A.
With that background, this bill makes the following two changes:
The committeeâ(TM)s bill would require government agencies to get a court order before viewing the content of communications to or from Americans in the National Security Agencyâ(TM)s database of information collected under the authority, known as Section 702, in criminal cases.
Rules relating to "unmasking" the identity of US citizens would be tightened. Certain officials have authority to unmask based on certain criteria. The bill would reduce the number of people who can authorize unmasking and tighten the conditions under which unmasking is allowed.
In general, the idea is to further the idea that section 702 is a national security tool tool to be used for international national security purposes, not for domestic criminal prosecutions, or worse, political purposes against US citizens not accused of any crime.
Capitalism was and still to a lesser degree rests upon socialist arguments. To sell stuff to the masses, everything is sold with socialist arguments. To give up so that the many benefit is the essence of socialism. It's a broad concept applied in many ways.
Capitalism argues it is the best system because it benefits the most people in the end. Twisted reasoning in a way but not illogical; it's justification for the inequality and many flaws is socialism. Keeping competition fair by regulation is part of it too and that is considered socialist... Today we've gone to extremes losing touch with purpose where Adam Smith would be attacked as too "left." It's become all dogma and no philosophy, like many religious people...
Communism and Fascism were both extremely authoritarian and needed to differentiate themselves. Go see PoliticalCompass.org. I blame the cold war propaganda for trying to destroy the word socialism; but I also think the situation was being exploited by authoritarians to undermine freedom... That propaganda still continues today. You can't have freedom without socialism. think. Dominance by the strongest oppresses the weak... and it's always a minority who is on top. To have the powerful minority give up power for the empowerment of the many is socialism. It's all in the implementation details and there is a great deal of propaganda involved in clouding all those issues.
Herding humans always seems to work best in a binary game of our tribe vs everybody else. It seems we always gravitate to simple reasoning that places things into 2 groups: us vs the rest. We can't get past our tribal territorial evolution.
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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.
Oh yeah, the Republican candidate (Trump) and Democratic candidate (Hillary Clinton) were exactly the same. Hillary would have enacted the exact same policies as what Trump is trying to do. I'm sure she and her party would repealed net neutrality, cut the ACA, and increase the deficient by US$ 1T to fund tax cuts for billionaires.
Yup, 100% equivalence. /s