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Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Not the Onion@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

NYT Opinion: Government Surveillance Keeps Us Safe

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NYT Opinion: Government Surveillance Keeps Us Safe

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Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Not the Onion@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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Opinion | Government Surveillance Keeps Us Safe
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A surveillance law referred to as Section 702 is needed to protect us from foreign threats.
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  • RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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    Nah, not buying that after living through 2 decades of the bullshit that 9/11 was used to shove up the ass of America and the rest of the world.

    They didn’t stop any of the big terrorist attacks like Jan. 6 which we all could see coming just by looking at social media, nor did they stop the Las Vegas concert massacre, or the many other massacres committed by people who always had numerous red flags ignored by authorities and associates. Nah.

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      Also not a word about other countries, mostly China and Russia, interfering with US elections. smh.

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        Foreign election interference via propaganda is another grossly overblown threat.

        • IT Pro: Cambridge Analytica models were exaggerated and ineffective, [UK Information Commissioner’s Office] claims
        • Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
        • Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
        • Washington Post: FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier
        • Washington Post: Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters
        • Jacobin: It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election
        • Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork
        • Jacobin: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal On the Left, there’s been a temptation to dismiss the revelations about Twitter’s internal censorship system that have emerged from the so-called Twitter Files project. But that would be a mistake: the news is important and the details are alarming.
        • MSNBC Repeats Hamilton 68 Lies 279 Times in 11 Minutes
        • Jeff Gerth at Columbia Journalism Review on Russiagate: Editor’s Note | Part one | Part two | Part three | Part four
        • Matt Taibbi: WMD, Part II: CIA “Cooked The Intelligence” To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump In 2016
        • Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away
        • Paris Marx: The TikTok ban is all about preserving US power
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        That’s because it was never on the mind of the opinion writer. The author literally helped usher in the post-9/11 surveillance environment that sees massive paranoia and none of the surveillance used for solving crimes. They will watch all of us for dissent and discreetly punish those they seem “an other.”

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    Didn’t know a bootlicker could speak

    Caught the NYT sucking up to Cornell today as well

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    Keeps the US gov in power and safe, not the citizenry.

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    Those who trade privacy for security achieve neither.

    • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOP
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      i left a comment about the origin of that saying in the cross-post of this thread. (i think the privacy/security/achieve version you posted is much better than the original one which said “deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”.)

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        I’d avoided the exact quote for the reasons in your comment, but it works so well in this context that it’s tough to let go of entirely. Glad you didn’t just see it as a misquote! Nice work helping to keep the record straight.

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