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I spent over 10 years working for one of the most liberal House members of the last 50 years — Rush Holt of New Jersey. What that experienced reinforced for me is that, to use the old cliché, “Democracy is not a spectator sport.” Online petitions don’t threaten politicians. Nasty
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What really defeated Hitler was the Allied war effort. What secured Europe post-war was the Marshall Plan & NATO. The EU came much later, and its contributions to Europe’s post-war prosperity have been uneven.
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The tide has been running against surveillance opponents for 16 years with no end in sight. Two years ago, the Congress passed the USA…
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What’s remarkable about this piece is the absence of any reference to how those trends will impact the growth of government surveillance powers.
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An oft-repeated canard offers only a dead-end
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In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, U.S. government intelligence and law enforcement officials, with a lot of help from House and Senate…
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The difference being the Clinton email scandal was real, involving an epic misuse of a private email server to circulate classified information.
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The problem is that America has stopped “doing it the right way”: https://www.cato.org/blog/gao-weighs-countering-violent-extremism
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The FBI never stopped surveilling Arab/Muslim-Americans: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/muslim-american-surveillance-fbi-spying-213773
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https://www.justsecurity.org/22553/usa-freedom-surveillance-reform-minimalism/
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Certainly true, but for the average user probably not a practical alternative. The larger overall problem here is not technical, but political. Until the composition of the Congress is changed from an anti-Bill of Rights majority to a pro-Bill of Rights majority, we won’t be able to get the
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Only if you use an encrypted cloud service like Spideroak, because under the PATRIOT Act’s lower legal standard it’s easier for federal agents to get warrants to search cloud services for your data. Using Spideroak would likely render such a warrant useless.