General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: There Are Days... When You Wonder Why We Even Bother... [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Thanks to Republicans and complicit corporate Democrats, the US is *already* surveilling all of us on the internet in violation of the Constitution.
And a massive spy center is being constructed in Utah for collecting data on all of us.
And Obama signed ACTA and then tried to hide it from the US press by calling it a "national security issue."
And the administration has an internet ID plan in progress which has never been discussed with the public.
And after several "cybersecurity" orders akin to CISPA were rejected in Congress because of concerns about privacy, Obama wrote an executive order which will force through the internet-censoring and -controlling measures at any time.
The definition of possible "terroristic" activity has been ridiculously expanded to justify surveilling those who oppose the destruction of our civil rights, and we already know that Occupy has been labeled potentially terroristic and subjected to coordinated federal surveillance and violence.
We already have very good reason to be outraged and concerned about the future of the internet not just because of the UN's actions in this regard, but based on our own bipartisan government's actions.