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• On the post: Supporting EFF Means You're A Security Risk?

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2013 @ 09:14am

  It's really frustrating how law enforcement view civil liberties groups.
  
  A lot of times, most law enforcement people are very black and white on the law. "The law is the law is the law is the law etc." Pot itself may not be that bad, but it's against the law so therefore...
  
  But clearly, there are some laws cops and other law enforcement types find more important than others. Minor possession of marijuana is apparently more important than fundamental civil liberties, from what I can tell. I never understand why the constitution isn't black and white but other laws are, in their minds.
  
  It seems the key is whatever supports an authoritarian mindset is good, in their minds... eg. strict drug laws do, whereas not civil liberty laws because they undermine that mindset.

• On the post: Dear Everyone: Please Don't Turn Edward Snowden Into Julian Assange

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 25 Jun, 2013 @ 12:17am

  We are better than Russia and China!
  
  Really setting a high standard for yourself, America...

• On the post: Yet Another Claim Of How NSA Surveillance 'Saved Us' From Terrorists Falls Apart Under Scrutiny

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2013 @ 11:22am

  It would be worthwhile to add that these individuals were already on the radar due to old fashioned police work, not due to a dragnet.

• On the post: Hollywood Studios Keep Saying Its Employees Must Get Paid, And Now May Be Forced To Pay Its Interns

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2013 @ 07:24am

  Re: Re:

  The thing with unpaid internships is that it enshrines income inequality (and hence other inequalities, like race/gender).
  
  Who can afford to work for free? The kids of rich people. Let's give them more advantages!

• On the post: NSA Claims Surveillance Programs Aided The Stopping Of 50 Attacks; Details Lacking

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2013 @ 12:24pm

  Re:

  "It is at times like these when our enemies within become almost as damaging as the enemies on the outside."
  
  Read: government critics

• On the post: 'Gears Of War' Designer: Used Games Must Be Killed So Unsustainable Development Can Live

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2013 @ 10:19am

  Re:

  We need to make a new sales tax, and give all the proceeds to video game makers. What would we do without titles like "Lollipop Chainsaw?"

• On the post: Steve Wozniak Speaks Out Against NSA Spying: This Is Not My America

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2013 @ 10:11am

  "It's a bit hyperbolic, but..."
  
  Is it though?

• On the post: British Intelligence Spied On G20 Officials' Phone Calls And Emails During 2009 Summit

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2013 @ 08:14pm

  Re: Oh come on Mike

  So much win.
  
  Also it's eavesdropping to videotape police (with audio)/

• On the post: DOJ Says Tech Companies Can Sort Of Release FISA Numbers, But.. In A Way That Decreases Transparency

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2013 @ 07:02pm

  Re: Re: So what, now we are supposed to trust what they are telling us?

  Well based on what I read they can actually publish it. They are only allowed to publish ranges if it includes all law enforcement requests as well, right?
  
  Well do that, but then publish the non-classified numbers separately. Being that it's not classified or sealed, it's a first amendment violation to prevent them from disclosing regular law enforcement requests.
  
  Simple subtraction gives you the rest.

• On the post: NSA's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2013 @ 08:26am

  Re: Re: Re:

  What would that conversation even look like? He would make a few well reasoned arguments and you would resort to calling him petty names the way you already are? Why would anyone (other than you and your troll brethren) want that?

• On the post: Congress, Finally Curious About NSA Spying, Discovers That It's Even More Widespread Than Previously Believed

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2013 @ 11:03pm

  Greenwald should probably release the documents as encrypted torrents where he can release the password via a surrogate if anything should happen to him.

• On the post: Author Of The Patriot Act Says Patriot Act Was Written Specifically To Prevent NSA Data Mining

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2013 @ 09:38am

  Re:

  And that is all I need for evidence :) Bold face type in titles, SOLD

• On the post: Author Of The Patriot Act Says Patriot Act Was Written Specifically To Prevent NSA Data Mining

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2013 @ 09:37am

  I don't think I've ever seen bold in the heading before. Considering the shocking titles we are used to seeing, it just goes to show how unbelievable that is.

• On the post: Author Of The Patriot Act Says NSA Surveillance Is An Abuse And Must End

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2013 @ 07:15pm

  Re: The terrorists have finally won.

  People never appreciate civil liberties until they lose them...

• On the post: Clapper: I Gave 'The Least Untruthful Answer' To Wyden's 'Beating Your Wife' Question On Data Surveillance

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2013 @ 07:13pm

  Re:

  "Why is he still in this job?"
  
  Evidently because he has no qualms about lying.

• On the post: The Real Scandal: Not That The NSA Broke The Law In Vast Spying, But That It Probably Didn't

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2013 @ 07:04pm

  Re:

  I'm going to invoke Godwin's Law and say that, similarly, pretty much everything the Nazis did was legal in their eyes.

• On the post: More Details On PRISM Revealed; Twitter Deserves Kudos For Refusing To Give In

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2013 @ 10:12pm

  Maybe they don't have access to "ALL THE DATA" but they are getting so much of it that they need to set up entire separate servers to handle it all?
  
  That doesn't sound like this monitoring is the exception to the rule, rather it IS the rule.

• On the post: Latest Leak: Obama Wants A List Of Countries To Cyberattack

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2013 @ 12:10am

  Re: Fiction

  "We need more cybersecurity laws, because after we're done pissing off the world everyone is going to be gunning for us!"

• On the post: Fox News Too Cowardly To Refuse Critical Ad Because It's Critical, Claims Copyright Instead

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2013 @ 12:05am

  Re:

  Best comment ^^^
  
  I feel the same way..
  
  All I heard was, "Change! Change is bad! Stop the change!"

• On the post: The NSA's Favorite Weasel Word To Pretend It's Claiming It Doesn't Spy On Americans

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2013 @ 01:45pm

  Re: Honest Answer

  What about the rest of the world. If we want to have our human rights respected we need to avoid the US at all costs, right?

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