Over 30y I've learned that surveillance overreach by Govs never stops or even slows down. Only reporting by the press does.<p>I'm hoping that a historically overt, abusive administration will kick news orgs out of their default complacency - and that they'll take surveillance seriously again. For a time.<p>That said, I am sympathetic that mental bandwidth is a real issue ATM.
So we can't dragnet surveil our own people? Hmm, how about we just buy it from the folks who do it for work? Then _we're_ not doing it. _We're_ just buying a bundle of data from a broker.<p>Couple this with the idea that we soft-spy on our Allies and then trade that data for their spying on our people and yeah, wow.
Interesting.<p>This was supposedly in the _charter_ of the department of homeland security. It was supposed to be the controller of all intelligence (all agencies to dump their databases together), from all the spy agencies to prevent the intentional use-case of employing jumbo jet planes as weapons of mass destruction. And forcing all cell phones of every design every where to have GPS. Seems a little bit slow.
We are headed into more than one wall so we look to a strong man to save us from ourselves whatever the cost is.
Our heard mentality rules in a time of crisis.
The only serious question facing us now is about AI: are we trying to create a new life form better than our own species or a sublife slave expendable for our worst purposes and designs?
Citizen's United broke the news media, by turning it into a pay per influence business, instead of journalism. Where are the Ida Tarbell's of our time? Most of them have been throttled, censored or completely suspended from most of the social media that they built up over the years, by the same rich parasitic influences that broke Citizen's United.<p>Want to do something about it? Come to the Billionaire's SummerCamp in Sun Valley, Idaho on July 6th, and complain to the rich parasites themselves.<p>Protest! Civil Disobedience! Justice!<p>Or just got back to watching YouTube and delude yourself into thinking it will fix itself.
The mighty CIA, unable to protect the military industrial complex. Until further notice, the spy agencies do nothing but rainmaking the American public.