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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNine Dashed-Off Points on the NSA
4. The NSA, despite the broad nature of its warrant request, did nothing illegal, and the supposed illegality of the FISC procedure has not been demonstrated.
5. The information the NSA is collecting is metadata, not content (like a wiretap), and not account names. Uncovering personally identifiable information would require separate warrants to do so. This was a pattern analysis, not really mass surveillance as we traditionally understand it. Anyone who calls this a wiretap is probably stupid or didnt read the order.
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7. No one will respond to this by voting out their representatives or Senators during the next election because, despite the temporary outcry, Americans (including the Congressmen and Senators who tried to add amendments) dont care about this very much.
8. None of you will stop voluntarily giving Verizon (or AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, etc.) your personal information out of the fear that they might be legally compelled to hand it over to an intelligence agency through a legal process. Because, at the end of the day, you really dont care about this very much either. At least, you dont care enough to go out of your way to change it.
http://joshuafoust.com/nine-dashed-off-points-on-the-nsa-scandal/
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Nine Dashed-Off Points on the NSA (Original Post)
UrbScotty
Jun 2013
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ForgoTheConsequence
(4,869 posts)1. It took this long for a defense?
Lol.
Democracyinkind
(4,015 posts)2. And then such a dismal one?
"Americans just don't care"
Great argument!
FSogol
(45,570 posts)4. Everyone here with a Facebook account gives away much more data to....?
UrbScotty
(23,980 posts)3. Thursday PM kick (nt)
Fearless
(18,421 posts)5. You sicken me.