Six Democratic lawmakers are pressing the nation’s top intelligence official to publicly disclose whether Americans who use commercial VPN services risk being treated as foreigners under United States surveillance law—a classification that would strip them of constitutional protections against warrantless government spying.
As if Snowden didn’t already prove constitutional protections don’t matter to the glowies anyway. Also, don’t expect privacy by placing your trust in strangers. Use trustless systems for that.
Saw your instance domain and thought I’d add something from home that Malcolm Turnbull has repeated a lot about American politics, which is that when you lack compulsory voting, government parties no longer have to appeal to a broad majority but instead can gain election by exciting a crazed minority with whatever sticks at the wall. Hate wins