Why are you all arguing about fucking canaries? I grew up with this idea that there was a right to freedom of speech and expression. You're all playing their little games when you should be standing up for your right.
In the case of violating the gag provisions of an NSL, that's a 'Fast Track' to an 8x10 cell in an institution not necessarily of your choosing.
Do feel free to write your representatives and complain, but don't try and sweep this all away under "right to freedom of speech and expression". National security is far more nuanced.
So do something about it. You can't complain in the preposterous way that you're complaining and not actively do something about it. And I'm not talking about voting, it's decades too late for that, and you'd never get the rest of the country to agree with your views.
Do something. You're sitting here bitching us out for how the US government works like it's our fault and we should have done something different. Well what are you doing? Because if the answer is "nothing", then maybe you should sit down and reevaluate your tone.
If you disagree that strongly with his attitude but aren't doing anything different than he is, you're a hypocrite. What makes you better than him? What puts you in a position to judge him?
Free Speech is limited. In the US, free speech doesn't include "obscenity." We tolerate that because no one wants to advocate for free speech covering child porn (except Ricard Stallman and that girl who got fired from Nintendo).
In Germany, they have "Free speech," except when it comes to anything relating to the Nazis (unless it's in a history book talking about how horrible they were).
In China, their constitution guarantees free speech.
Laws are like debt, they are only useful to the point they can be enforced through violence.
Do feel free to write your representatives and complain, but don't try and sweep this all away under "right to freedom of speech and expression". National security is far more nuanced.