Snowden and Greenwald Beginning to Self-Destruct; ‘The Nation’ and ‘Mother Jones’ Raise Questions

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171. The issue of collection of metadata has, I believe, been tested, in court,

and found to be constitutional.

Why? because that metadata is distributed internet wide and that distribution is essential to the functioning of the internet. Similar data is generated by digital phone services eg cellphone services. Lots of people collect this meta and more use it such as service providers, advertisers and software companies. Do you object to them "spying" on you? Well you had best not else things like search engines and server farms would rapidly loose the capacity to function. Stopping this would, to an extent, be like saying the Post Office could not look at the envelope of a letter and could not store data about that envelope and its location in the postal network.

In no way is there any monitoring of the content of the call or the communication just the data associated with its source, destination, format and routing. What is more the big scary government that you want to stop monitoring this data has no direct access to it (despite the falsehood in Greenwald's original article).

So the operation is getting your undergarments in a bunch is one that has been in operation for a long time, has been reported on prior to this time, does not monitor content and has passed legal tests of its Constitutionality. the only change in circumstance is the involvement of the M$M and their sensationalist reporting of this.

Congratulations on becoming a dupe of the Capitalist machine.