Re:10 years after Snowden's first leak, what have we learned?
by hayst4ck on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @07:28PM
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I personally think this is ridiculous.
It's not one person doing something bad, it's an entire powerful organization that pays the people who work the whistleblowers channels livelihoods doing something bad.
I have a hard time believing congress didn't authorize it in the first place. I am probably uninformed, but it seems reasonable and likely that prism is authorized directly by the patriot act. Congress told us they were going to do it, and they did it.
It's not one person doing something bad, it's an entire powerful organization that pays the people who work the whistleblowers channels livelihoods doing something bad.
I have a hard time believing congress didn't authorize it in the first place. I am probably uninformed, but it seems reasonable and likely that prism is authorized directly by the patriot act. Congress told us they were going to do it, and they did it.
There are no good answers.