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minus-squarePostalDude@lemmy.fmhy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31arrow-down3·edit-21 year agoThis is why we need to strip the US gov. of power, before shit like this starts happening (which ik, it kinda already is.)
minus-squareLenins2ndCat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45arrow-down1·1 year ago100% certainty that the FBI and CIA are already doing this and don’t give a shit that it’s illegal.
minus-squareCannacheques@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoThe irony is the idea that almost anyone funny could theoretically become a person of interest. Goes to show how surveillance states can often slowly become a large waste of human and machine energy, potential and capability
minus-squareFeirdro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·1 year agoSoon they’ll be checking if you’re talking about abortion or homosexuality or how horrible racists are. Then comes the knock on your door.
minus-squareWidowmaker_Best_Girl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year agoHasn’t the Patriot Act basically already enabled the feds to do this stuff and more for years now already?
This is why we need to strip the US gov. of power, before shit like this starts happening (which ik, it kinda already is.)
100% certainty that the FBI and CIA are already doing this and don’t give a shit that it’s illegal.
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The irony is the idea that almost anyone funny could theoretically become a person of interest.
Goes to show how surveillance states can often slowly become a large waste of human and machine energy, potential and capability
Soon they’ll be checking if you’re talking about abortion or homosexuality or how horrible racists are. Then comes the knock on your door.
Hasn’t the Patriot Act basically already enabled the feds to do this stuff and more for years now already?