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by matheusmoreira 913 days ago
Has warrantless mass surveillance really become so normalized that such gross violation of people's rights is just casually brushed aside like some unsurprising everyday occurrence, so common it can't be helped? Lawyers and journalists are people too, they're citizens, human beings with rights and they don't deserve to be "monitored" by anyone. If "everyone knows" they're being monitored, why is nobody doing a thing about it?

All these three letter agencies operate in the darkness and away from the public eye. That's where they belong, because what they do to their own citizens is supposed to be unconstitutional. If they've really gotten so brazen as to operate openly instead of clandestinely and are still enjoying complete impunity then there really is no hope left.