Re:If PRISM is Good Policy, Why Stop with Terrorism?
by trestles on Friday July 05, 2013 @11:59AM
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You realize that the excample you provide has absolutely nothing to do with what the article is about, PRISM, or my post. A chat board is PUBLIC which is the exact opposite of what PRISM is supposed to be.
Re:If PRISM is Good Policy, Why Stop with Terrorism?
by ctdonath on Friday July 05, 2013 @12:49PM
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Even if on a public chat board, the police shouldn't be sniffing up all your material to use against you. If they're doing sweeping "fishing expeditions" with public content, how much worse is it with private content?
Re:If PRISM is Good Policy, Why Stop with Terrorism?
by trestles on Friday July 05, 2013 @08:16PM
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You're talking about public pronouncements being the same as PRISM which shows you just don't really get what this article is about. If you say you're going to do something in a public forum, then you have to live with the consequences. If you don't understand that, good luck in life.
The concern is there are so many laws, so vaguely worded, that if they want to imprison you they just have to sift thru your data until they find a match on something. Equifax may have that data, but they can't imprison me with it; read my prior post re the gov't terrorizing (and perhaps imprisoning, the incident isn't over yet) someone just for a dark-humor post on a chat board.
There is no justifiable reason for the gov't to engage on such a constant, pervasive, national "fishing expedition". The consequences are too severe.