Meet the 16 People Responsible for Protecting Your Privacy

Re:Meet the 16 People Responsible for Protecting Your Privacy by Camillo on Friday June 21, 2013 @12:11PM (#5918802)

I can see the "republican" part, since they have to deal with requests from the government, but "white" and "male"? Do sex and race really have that much bearing on one's thinking about legal matters, especially at the ostensibly high level of a federal court?

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Re:Meet the 16 People Responsible for Protecting Your Privacy by ck2 on Friday June 21, 2013 @12:14PM (#5918836)

We have people stop-and-frisked for being black and people being taken off planes for flying-while-muslim. You don't think race has anything to do with how people experience things in this world?

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Re:Meet the 16 People Responsible for Protecting Your Privacy by cobrausn on Friday June 21, 2013 @12:26PM (#5918990)

I am straight, white, formerly republican, and find all of those things apalling when they happen. I didn't need to get burned by the fire to recognize that it burns.

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Re:Meet the 16 People Responsible for Protecting Your Privacy by pessimizer on Friday June 21, 2013 @02:50PM (#5920150)

Many people do.

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Re:Meet the 16 People Responsible for Protecting Your Privacy by gohrt on Friday June 21, 2013 @07:49PM (#5921803)

You are unfortunately a rare, um, breed.

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Re:Meet the 16 People Responsible for Protecting Your Privacy by cobrausn on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @04:19PM (#5948732)

Wait, did I just get racially profiled?

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Re:Meet the 16 People Responsible for Protecting Your Privacy by jonknee on Friday June 21, 2013 @12:17PM (#5918870)

Do you honestly not see any advantage of having people with a range of life experiences on a court? Especially on a court that is primarily tasked with making secret rulings to spy on [mostly] non-white people.

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Re:Meet the 16 People Responsible for Protecting Your Privacy by malandrew on Friday June 21, 2013 @03:16PM (#5920313)

I suggest you read this blog post by David Simon, creator of the Wire, which was posted on HN a few days ago:

http://davidsimon.com/the-nigger-wake-up-call/

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Re:Meet the 16 People Responsible for Protecting Your Privacy by gohrt on Friday June 21, 2013 @07:56PM (#5921836)

I finally comprehend how David Simon continues to argue that domestic surveilance is not a problem.

He thinks that the "Left" (his term) don't care enough about bad government actors when it affects poor black people, and so now, when bad government actors threaten members of the Left, they have no right to complain about bad government actors ruining a theoretically sound program.

He's essentially trolling the Left, refusing to join them in accusing the government of having bad actors, holding his support hostage until they join him in taking down the bad actors everywhere else in government.

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