Stop letting old ass people decide on matters they don't know nothing about or know how it works. Since Mark Zuckerbergs testimony, it showed the congress don't know s*** about technology.
riot when?
Never.
I'm pretty sure less than 1% of Americans even know about the bill.
and this is probably the biggest issue of it all. they get to write the papers. if we break the rules written onto those papers, we get arrested and "ignorance of the law is no excuse", even when people don't know what rules are being drafted against them
i'm gonna keep it real with you chief they were already doing that for the past 20 years
Mitch McConnell is among the very worst people on earth.
The whole GOP is reprehensible at this point minus Romney
-what people who don't do d**** say about d*** laws
-what white people say to black people who are afraid of being killed by police
-what documented people say to undocumented immigrants
get real dude, this is an infringement on my rights and your's too (if you're in the U.S.)
Most people don't worry about laws like this because they're worried about being exposed for weird p*** or something. They worry for two reasons; either firstly, that they looked at something which they could be retroactively prosecuted for - say, you looked at Wikileaks documents but then they make accessing leaked Wikileaks documents from officials illegal (theoretically), and then backwardly prosecute you for such. Although you aren't supposed to be prosecuted retroactively according to US law, it has happened before by upper-level courts.
Secondly, people worry less about this for the average person and more about how this affects public figures, such as activists. The FBI & CIA do not have a great track record in that regard; if you are an activist or politician and say something unpopular, if you have anything in your history which can be used against you - even the smallest thing - it basically will be, even if it's selectively done.
Most of these times these things do not affect the average person - but they are laws from which more oppressive standards are built from. Take a look at the FBI and entrapping "terrorists" by radicalizing them themselves in honeypots then arresting them for example (this has happened a number of times in regards to "teenager wants to join ISIS" type clickbait stories) - the FBI can now look up theoretically who they want to honeypot, even though many of these people may never actually be terrorists otherwise, the FBI just thinks they will be.
... werent they already doing this with the patriot act? This was just to remove it correct?
Most people don't worry about laws like this because they're worried about being exposed for weird p*** or something. They worry for two reasons; either firstly, that they looked at something which they could be retroactively prosecuted for - say, you looked at Wikileaks documents but then they make accessing leaked Wikileaks documents from officials illegal (theoretically), and then backwardly prosecute you for such. Although you aren't supposed to be prosecuted retroactively according to US law, it has happened before by upper-level courts.
Secondly, people worry less about this for the average person and more about how this affects public figures, such as activists. The FBI & CIA do not have a great track record in that regard; if you are an activist or politician and say something unpopular, if you have anything in your history which can be used against you - even the smallest thing - it basically will be, even if it's selectively done.
Most of these times these things do not affect the average person - but they are laws from which more oppressive standards are built from. Take a look at the FBI and entrapping "terrorists" by radicalizing them themselves in honeypots then arresting them for example (this has happened a number of times in regards to "teenager wants to join ISIS" type clickbait stories) - the FBI can now look up theoretically who they want to honeypot, even though many of these people may never actually be terrorists otherwise, the FBI just thinks they will be.
great points!
Quote me if you're a pedophile
Western world conditioned to be complacent, you hate to see it.
furthermore, this is a foot in the door. even if this doesn't seem to be a huge step in the stripping of privacy rights regarding our own personal data, it's just inching forward until it trickles down enough to where i am affected by this.
any of our stripped rights can be politicized and in 2020, people can be manipulated and broken down more than ever. read this quote from Richard Nixon's former Domestic Policy Chief:
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people," former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper's writer Dan Baum for the April cover story published Tuesday.
"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities."
i don't trust anyone who wants to be able to arrest me easier
Looking through another mans internet history
Asking for permission to see another man's internet history