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#1 | Posted by KBM at 2011-11-16 01:13 PM | Reply | Flag:

....and the Patriot Act said anyone could be labeled as as a terrorist for any reason. To my knowledge, they never did that though.

To my knowledge, they never did that though.

Secret arrests are part of the Patriot Act too. Look to see if there is a significant rise in missing persons since it passed.

Most likely, we can't see the patriot act's biggest consequence, which is simply data compiled on people with no probable cause. SOPA would add to this dramatically, I've often seen it sarcastically called the Stop Online Privacy Act.

Two reasons I dislike that - as in other acts, the government seems to be taking a rather fascist opinion that corporate security is national security. Second, I think the "Arab Spring" woke them up to the possibility of coordinating populist movements through the internet, and established power has no interest in that challenge. Even if popular non-violent revolutions are sometimes the only way to prevent the violent ones.

"the government seems to be taking a rather fascist opinion that corporate security is national security. "

What's wrong with that?

--"Limited government" assholes

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