• @NightAuthor@lemmy.world
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      4711 months ago

      No… no no no to this type of rhetoric. If law enforcement wants to spy on an American, they should be required to prove to a judge they have a very good reason and get a warrant for that shit.

      • monotremata
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        Well, okay, but we’re gonna create our own set of secret judges so nobody can keep an eye on what we’re doing. This is about us being able to watch you, not the other way around. --the intelligence agencies

        • @SinningStromgald@lemmy.world
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          And we won’t actually LOOK at anything, with our eyes, until we need to but we will collect EVERYTHING on EVERYONE…ALL THE TIME. But since we aren’t “looking” it’s not spying. - also intelligence agencies

        • ihavenopeopleskills
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          11 months ago

          And this is why security and privacy practices are so important. It’s not important until it is.

      • be_excellent_to_each_other
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        I agree, but that changes nothing about why maga is upset, and I’m quite sure concern that their plans for a Republican dictatorship might be further threatened is a big component of why.

    • Billiam
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      Can’t imagine why they’d be mad about the FBI spying on self-admitted domestic terrorists.

    • Alien Nathan Edward
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      311 months ago

      this isn’t for MAGA. MAGA leaves a trail of probable cause all over the internet. they livestream themselves kicking in doors at the capitol and bear spraying cops. this is for spying on normal people who’ve done nothing wrong but inconvenience the ruling class in some way or another.

    • ihavenopeopleskills
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      Until MAGA isn’t the one. Until it’s somebody else, like a pro-Palestinian group or a gun control group.

    • @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      111 months ago

      As though law enforcement will use this against their MAGA drinking buddies.

      This will be used for drug enforcement. When it fails to do what they’re claiming it will right now, they’ll say that they need greater power to violate everyone’s rights. And then use it for drug enforcement.