Twitter Is Suing The U.S. Government

[exfileme]

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[ethanolson]

Twitter 1 - Obama's America 0

 

[bentonsl_2010]

Twitter 1 - Obama's America 0

Except the FISA ammendment to allow this was signed into law during the bush years.......

#Dumbandbrainwashed

 

[coolitic]

I'm sure they weren't dumb enough to think this wasn't going to happen, were they?

 

[eodeo]

Reducing spying/evilness (basically the same thing) is always good. Governments should spy it's own rear end if they need entertainment.

 

[f-14]

"....FISA Amendments Act for five years (until December 31, 2017) which renews the U.S. government's authority to monitor electronic communications of foreigners abroad.[8]"

as an american i don't care because this applies to A) foreigners B) abroad aka outside america. once you leave american borders and your a foreigner, it's fair game. i don't care where the tweets are made once they are outside of the united states, fair game unless you are an american. the constitution is the establishment of and rules against the government, not against we the people, not against businesses.

 

[sykozis]

Congress has been trampling on the constitution since 9-11-2001. Anyone else remember the illegal wire tapping done by the Gov't? The Gov't saw the attack on the World Trade Center as an opportunity to start taking rights away in the name of "National Security"..... And no, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.....

 

[kunthakenthe]

I know people dont like the Nsa but i dont want "potentionally harmful" info about the usa out in the open for cyber attacks and such.

 

[thomaseron]

This would probably never happen in Sweden.
I'm on Twitter's side, though.

 

[spellbinder2050]

They say that they need all of this excessive surveillance to catch the terrorists, but even on 9/11 the FBI suspected an imminent attack and were already watching the 9/11 hijackers. Not only that, several government agencies were warned of an impending attack.

The system seemed to be working just fine. It was the government that wasn't.

 

[dovah-chan]

That's the problem with PRISM and other programs like that. It can't predict attacks but it can pinpoint where and how and what happened after the attack occurs. I think it's just an excuse to do less police work and save more money by having less employees (but the amount of cash they're dumping into these projects negate that notion anyway).

Who is the NSA to say that they are doing the right thing by spying on all of us anyways? Even if there are people in the NSA who believe they are doing the right thing, there are always going to be people who are willing to take advantage and exploit this system.

I feel bad for Twitter stepping up to the government like this. Apparently back in '08, Yahoo denied the government access to user data. In response to this, the government said that they will fine them $200,000 a day and the amount will double each week. That is pretty much a corporate death sentence and Yahoo backed down and caved in I believe but have only now just been allowed to talk about it.

To succinctly sum up what is going on; the US government is a bunch of bullies who feel that they have some self appointed duty to 'protect their country' by spying on humanity and someone is calling them out on it.

 

[antilycus]

1st Amendment says that you have a right to free speech REGARDING THE UNITED STATES GOV'T so yes, if you are going to tax corporations like people, allow them donate like people, they should have the same first amendment rights as people

 

[MIJ-VI]

Related to the OP:

The root question which the largest number of people do not truly know the answer to:

Where does money come from?