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by ebbv 4817 days ago
> You could say exactly this set of things about any bill ever.

No, I couldn't. There are unfortunately a lot of bills I could have said that about (and I mentioned some of them), but not literally any bill ever.

In fact, most bills are not about granting more power to intelligence agencies at the cost of privacy protections.

But thanks for sticking to your role as mindless CISPA defender. You play it well.

EDIT:

> If you think the real meaning of the bill has nothing to do with the text of the bill, that the text of the bill doesn't matter, just give up.

I didn't say that and obviously didn't mean that.

I also couldn't give a shit about movie pirates. I buy my entertainment. That's the bonus of being a full grown adult with a career.

But I do care about the erosion of privacy law for no benefit whatsoever, and in fact, what I see as a detriment; continuing to grow the intelligence industry which has no public oversight. That's a Bad Idea(tm).

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You probably don't care if you can convince tptacek, but to random people following along (who you might be able to convince), calling tptacek mindless undermines your goal.
I'm not really concerned. I mostly post comments because I have all these thoughts in my head and I want to let them out.

I called him "mindless CISPA defender" because based on his comments on the subject, that seems like an accurate description.

And in my specific case he seemed to pay no attention whatsoever to what I brought up and replied with a handful of boilerplate responses that didn't really apply to what I was saying. So, that seemed pretty much like a mindless automaton to me.

tptacek has a dog in this hunt. I'd say his comments here are quite mindful of that.
That is news to me.