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ecib · 4221 days ago · link · · parent · post: 'Outrageous': Verizon reportedly forced to turn over customers' phone records
This is what absolutely kills me. We have a Constitution written in plain English, that spells out our right to privacy, and our representatives don't seem to be applying a cursory smell test AT ALL. Instead they begin the process by comparing aspects of a bill proposing some power against the minutia and niche mechanisms of other bills and powers already signed into law. It's like they miss the forest for the trees completely when evaluating this stuff. BTW, that is, hands down, the most benign interpretation of our representative's behavior imaginable. The truth would likely make me just throw up.This is not the behavior of a representative democracy, and it doesn't even pass the smell test.