We need to stop these idiots, now. They actually think they are acting under our mandate to protect us… but what they are protecting is themselves, against us. If ideas like this are allowed to propagate and proceed, we will not have a police state. We will have states that have been -converted to labor camps and prisons-, and we will have them within 7 years.
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“A government task force is preparing legislation that would pressure companies such as Facebook and Google to enable law enforcement officials to intercept online communications as they occur. … ‘The importance to us is pretty clear,’ says Andrew Weissmann, the FBI’s general counsel. ‘We don’t have the ability to go to court and say, “We need a court order to effectuate the intercept.” Other countries have that.’ Under the draft proposal, a court could levy a series of escalating fines, starting at tens of thousands of dollars, on firms that fail to comply with wiretap orders, according to persons who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. ‘This proposal is a non-starter that would drive innovators overseas and cost American jobs,’ said Greg Nojeim, a senior counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology. ‘They might as well call it the Cyber Insecurity and Anti-Employment Act.'”
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