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Re:US immigration enforcement used AI-powered tool to scan p... by adrr on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:47PM (#38040818)
Should we disband the CIA and NSA since all they are focused on spying on non citizens.
Re:US immigration enforcement used AI-powered tool to scan p... by kmeisthax on Friday October 27, 2023 @01:05PM (#38041045)
Yes. Constitutional protections against unlawful search and seizure mean nothing if they only apply to citizens, because not everyone is a dual citizen of every country with an intelligence agency. If America can't spy on Americans, and the UK can't[0] spy on Brits, America can still ask the UK to spy on Americans that don't have dual citizenship with the UK, and the UK can ask America to spy on Brits that don't have dual citizenship with America. This makes 4A into a water sandwich.

[0] I'm assuming there's some kind of 4A-equivalent bound on government behavior in the Calvinball soup that is the UK 'constitution'

Re:US immigration enforcement used AI-powered tool to scan p... by krapp on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:52PM (#38040892)
Yes. Not for that specific reason, though. The CIA for its human rights abuses, experimentation on American citizens, torture, mass murder and support for violent autocratic regimes and terrorists around the world, and the NSA for all of its various domestic surveillance and data mining activities.
Re:US immigration enforcement used AI-powered tool to scan p... by ghostpepper on Friday October 27, 2023 @01:11PM (#38041112)
This is not a real suggestion to have no spy agencies, right?

Is every other country going to follow suit? Would you have the US disband their military as well? Or should they just deploy it without any sort of intelligence gathering?

Re:US immigration enforcement used AI-powered tool to scan p... by krapp on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:37PM (#38044326)
> This is not a real suggestion to have no spy agencies, right?

I do think we should not have these specific agencies, because they've proven themselves too corrupt, and we should consider a "defund" strategy for our entire military industrial complex, completely dismantling the existing systems and replacing them with something a little less... evil? Certainly scaled back by a few orders of magnitude.

But then the only reason these agencies act the way they do and get away with it is because the government wants it that way. So maybe just burn it all down, I don't know. I'm starting to think Thomas Jefferson was right and we should at least try to shoot all the politicians, rip up the Constitution and start over every 20 years.

So not a realistic suggestion, no.

> Would you have the US disband their military as well?

Honestly I think the world would be better off if the US only had the national guard and a small purely defensive coastal navy like Japan. Maybe not randomly fuck up Asian or Middle Eastern countries every few years in the name of oil or Jesus or kickbacks to Lockheed Martin.

Re:US immigration enforcement used AI-powered tool to scan p... by gustavus on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:49PM (#38040841)
> the CIA and NSA since all they are focused on spying on non citizens.

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's a good one.

Re:US immigration enforcement used AI-powered tool to scan p... by paganel on Friday October 27, 2023 @01:20PM (#38041238)
I wonder when will the NSA also get its own drone program to shoot at Middle East weddings. They must be feeling down seeing how the intelligence gatherers from the CIA are now in the business of waging aerial war, while they, the NSA, are left with the boring office work.
Re:US immigration enforcement used AI-powered tool to scan p... by DANmode on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:32PM (#38042144)
I don't think I would describe the CTF Pro Leagues as "boring office work"!