In all seriousness, when police circumvent the existing legal methods for gaining access to information, and when they spy on people without warrants, why should the "normal channels" be left open?
Isn't it about time to repeal things like CALEA, or to accept that the cost of having a system like this is that it should be the only system?
"But we're afraid bad guys would act like they live in a surveillance state if they actually knew they lived in a surveillance state!" I... I just don't know how to understand that mindset.
I know there are evil criminals in the world, and I'll bet that having power and dominion over everyone is a fun trip, but it's also corrosive to what the US has always pretended to be.
Isn't it about time to repeal things like CALEA, or to accept that the cost of having a system like this is that it should be the only system?
"But we're afraid bad guys would act like they live in a surveillance state if they actually knew they lived in a surveillance state!" I... I just don't know how to understand that mindset.
I know there are evil criminals in the world, and I'll bet that having power and dominion over everyone is a fun trip, but it's also corrosive to what the US has always pretended to be.