TOP SENATOR WARNS SWEEPING NEW SURVEILLANCE POWERS WILL “INEVITABLY BE MISUSED” BY TRUMP - eviltoast

Everyone from janitors to the Geek Squad could be forced to help the NSA spy — and Democrats barely put up a fight.

  • adarza@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    file this one under what? ‘no shit, sherlock’, ‘well, duh’, or ‘told you so’?

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      Yeah, it’s why we always said you shouldn’t ever give government these kinds of surveillance powers. The oversight was already lacking as it was, and now you’ve got an actual fascist in charge. And you didn’t do jack shit to reign it in at all after the first Trump presidency. This is why people hate the Democrats.

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        This is Ron Wyden. He’s been fighting the “no duh” fight for his entire career. Fighting against surveillance and for personal privacy rights, net neutrality, etc. He’s a real one.