The NSA, Verizon and Your Privacy

[gwb72tii]

This development is particularly bad

i mean, how would you like to start a business, work your ass off night and day for nothing for a long time, finally make a go of it due to your hard work, and then have the federal government favor your biggest rival in business by providing them information you have no access to. this is incredible, and frankly chilling.
anybody want to debate the second amendment right now?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-0...-of-firms.html

this and all the above comments are one more reminder why our founding fathers's distrust of big government is/was so correct.

[z31maniac]

anybody want to debate the second amendment right now?

Sure.

I fully believe in the right to bear arms.

The sad thing is that you think it would make a difference.

[Vedubin01]

Sure.

I fully believe in the right to bear arms.

The sad thing is that you think it would make a difference.

Fear is a powerful tool!

[z31maniac]

Fear is a powerful tool!

You really think you're closet full of ammo is going to deter a tyrannical govt?

Lulz

[Vedubin01]

You really think you're closet full of ammo is going to deter a tyrannical govt?

Lulz

Nope but living in the country with no one miles around. They will not find me a threat. Ill be able to take care of my own. Unfortunately its not the image you expected. I have no intention of playing Rambo or GI Joe. I just prepare to take care of my family in a crisis with out interference from those that have not.

Hope you trust them to take care of you!

[nando]

so, where's all the outrage over all this?

you'd think this would be cannon fodder for Obama haters.

I guess it's just that the corruption seems to be on all sides so there's nothing to debate?

[z31maniac]

I guess it's just that the corruption seems to be on all sides so there's nothing to debate?

Yep.

My apathy for the current state of corruption knows no bounds.

[M-technik-3]

Face it as soon as you join the folds of public office your morals tend to get a bit more liberal than the ones you ran on.

[Jean]

Hoax ?

http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-signs-executive-order-to-allow-shut-down-of-all-us-communications

[nando]

a year ago I would have blew it off immediately.. now.. it's far fetched, but obviously not so far fetched as to be impossible.

[Vedubin01]

Snowden's interview part 2 released today.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/08/edward-snowden-surveillance-excess-interview

[rhE-30]

Is this a legit website? I cannot interpret it as saying he could do that.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-...y-preparedness-

Hoax ?

http://www.examiner.com/article/obam...communications

[LowR3V'in]

what happened to the boston bomber terrorist?

[Fusion]

a year ago I would have blew it off immediately.. now.. it's far fetched, but obviously not so far fetched as to be impossible.

The White House has finally responded to criticism over US President Barack Obama’s hushed signing last week of an Executive Order that allows the government to command privately-owned communication systems and acknowledges its implications.

When President Obama inked his name to the Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions Executive Order on July 6, he authorized the US Department of Homeland Security to take control of the country’s wired and wireless communications — including the Internet — in instances of emergency. The signing was accompanied with little to no acknowledgment outside of the White House, but initial reports on the order quickly caused the public to speak out over what some equated to creating an Oval Office kill switch for the Web. Now the Obama administration is addressing those complaints by calling the Executive Order a necessary implement for America’s national security.

“The [order] recognizes the creation of DHS and provides the Secretary the flexibility to organize the communications systems and functions that reside within the department as [Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano] believes will be most effective,” White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden tells the Washington Post.

Hayden insists that “The [order] does not transfer authorities between or among departments,” but the order does indeed allow the DHS to establish and implement control over even the privately owned communication systems in the country, including Internet Service Providers such as Time Warner, Verizon and Comcast, if the administration agrees that it is warranted for security’s sake.

Immediately after last week’s signing, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) said the order allowed the DHS "the authority to seize private facilities when necessary, effectively shutting down or limiting civilian communications."
...
White House spokesperson Hayden adds to the Post, “Mobile phones, the Internet, and social media are all now integral to the communications landscape,” concreting still the allegations that this order could be used as a kill switch to any of the millions upon millions of handheld and desktop devices across the country.

http://rt.com/usa/white-house-systems-order-142/

Its like Alex Jones' wet dream coming true, sadly enough.

[nando]

Wow.. well, whats left? We still have guns to murder each other with but everything else is gone.