TIL That the government's mass surveillance programs operating under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, have never stopped an act of terrorism.

Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world · edit-2 5 days ago

TIL That the government's mass surveillance programs operating under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, have never stopped an act of terrorism.

CameronDev@programming.dev · 5 days ago

Parallel construction means they don’t need to use the original evidence. Your administration is stupid, but not everyone doing the work is.

To be clear, I’m not pro-dragnet-survelliance, it has massive downsides, I’m just pointing out that any upside (if it exists at all) is entirely hidden from everyone else.

TIL That the government's mass surveillance programs operating under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, have never stopped an act of terrorism.

TIL That the government's mass surveillance programs operating under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, have never stopped an act of terrorism.

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