• @ikidd
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    That’s always been the problem with surveillance, but these twats never seemed to realize it when they brought it up. How fucking stupid can you be before you just forget to breathe for an hour or two?

    • 🦄🦄🦄
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      twats never seemed to realize it when they brought it up

      oh they realize, they just don’t care

    • Max-P
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      It’ll never abused nor fall on the wrong hands. Never. And then it does and they act like nobody could foresee that happening. It’s infuriating.

      All the data collection going on, it’ll backfire spectacularly eventually.

  • yeehaw
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    Not really a trump thing, as much as I despise the guy, the article says Biden pushed for this.

    It’s a bad bill and shouldn’t be legal. The NSA already has so much power.

  • @TootSweet
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    If what Trump is going to do with the surveillance powers is exactly what it was intended the president could do with them, is it really misuse?

    In software engineering, we call this “works as designed.”

    Yes it sucks more that Trump specifically will weild them. But the real problem is that the office of the presidency has these powers. Not specifically which president had them.

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      I think non-software people call this getting their face eaten by leopards.

      Our “left”-centre government party here in Germany is still trying to pass the next version of a surveillance bill, which has been struck down multiple times for being unconstitutional over the years. All the while, it is getting more and more likely that we will have our own neo-nazis in power next year.

    • Fubarberry
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      Yeah, I think a good approach to any type of government powers is considering that future presidents/parties you don’t like will also have access to these powers.

      I would absolutely love it if the threat of the future Trumps is a limiting factor on government overreach.

  • Buelldozer
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    The President has too much fscking power and civil liberty people have been shouting about it for more than 20 years now.

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    How did all these laws Trump can abuse on day one get on the books, I wonder? They should find the guys responsible for passing them in whatever organism they used to discuss them

  • @LovableSidekick
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    Probably not by the Useful Idiot, but certainly by his puppeteers.

  • Mr. Zeus
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    2015 hours ago

    the new surveillance power we currently have was abused by Bush Jr, Obama (who made it more invasive), Trump, Biden, and now Trump again.

    Follow the constitution you fuckers! No more spying without a warrant!

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    814 hours ago

    Properly worded headline: Top Senator Warns Sweeping New Surveillance Powers Will “Inevitably Be Misused” by us

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      Yeah, let’s not pretend this isn’t absolutely a class issue. Snowden, Assange, and Manning happened under Obama. This is an “us” vs the “elites” Trump is just a convenient excuse for the next democrat to abuse these same powers and be like “well Trump was doing it”

      Edit: if you don’t think the Biden administration isn’t doing the same thing right now to protect our precious “Healthcare” CEOs from another “getting even” attempt you are sadly mistaken