The New USA Freedom Act: A Step in the Right Direction, but More Must Be Done

Re:The New USA Freedom Act: A Step in the Right Direction, b... by dragonwriter on Thursday April 30, 2015 @04:09PM (#9467345)

> The PATRIOT Act [...] is purposefully misnomed in an attempt to hide what the bills does and to dissuade voting against it

When discussing the manipulative nature of the naming of the act in question, its perhaps useful to get the name right: it's not just the PATRIOT Act, its the USA PATRIOT Act, and USA PATRIOT isn't the full name, its an acronym for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism".

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Re:The New USA Freedom Act: A Step in the Right Direction, b... by npizzolato on Thursday April 30, 2015 @08:28PM (#9468583)

I'm reminded of this line from Agents of Shield:

Maria Hill: What does S.H.I.E.L.D. stand for, Agent Ward?

Grant Ward: Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division.

Maria Hill: And what does that mean to you?

Grant Ward: It means someone really wanted our initials to spell out "shield."

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Re:The New USA Freedom Act: A Step in the Right Direction, b... by bookface on Thursday April 30, 2015 @04:46PM (#9467537)

Wow, that is, appropriately, a tortured backronym.

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Re:The New USA Freedom Act: A Step in the Right Direction, b... by rayiner on Thursday April 30, 2015 @06:41PM (#9468114)

It's a bad backronym, but it's not misleading.

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Re:The New USA Freedom Act: A Step in the Right Direction, b... by Retra on Thursday April 30, 2015 @07:56PM (#9468391)

I would argue that it is.

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