I found this wonderful post from the white house THREE DAYS AGO in my (very late) daily history post about the NSA.

“I found that the use of Chinese surveillance technology outside the PRC and the development or use of Chinese surveillance technology to facilitate repression or serious human rights abuse constituted unusual and extraordinary threats to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, and I expanded the national emergency to address these threats.”

  • relay@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    If I were a foreign power that wanted to get as many US citizen’s data as much as possible, wouldn’t it be easier to just abuse holes in the US security apparatus that already collects data on its citizens rather than build a separate hardware and software apparatus. The US security apparatus already has done the hard part of the work of surveilling the population so intently. Interception of that data is easier than building a secret hardware surveillance network.

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      1 year ago

      literally just have someone convert to mormonism and send them to that big datacenter in Utah lmao.

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      1 year ago

      The whole thing is morally and intellectually bankrupt. I absolutely loathe how they frame their enemies as surveillance states while simultaneously wiretapping the world.