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[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

Senators can fuck off.

Because only criminals would value their privacy, right? /s

[-] The_Sasswagon@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This isn't the named senators telling people to not use VPNs, this is the senators saying they are worried US citizens are being surveiled as if they are foreign threats due to VPN use.

They are then asking the person in charge of the people doing that surveiling to change their guidance to reflect that reality, as they currently reccomend VPN use.

There won't be a response, and then I would assume the named legislators will propose legislation to patch this problem which will not be read or passed by any other politicians to the right of these fairly progressive legislators.

At worst its political theater, at best an attempt to protect VPN use, realistically something closer to the former, and none of the outcomes are these senators trying to take muh vpns

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

Bet they are willing to share their website history

[-] Dionysus@leminal.space 4 points 1 month ago

Huh... The Grand Old Pedophiles want to spy on you at the service provider.

The Dems want you to avoid using things that may protect you from that.

Fun.

Senators

  • Ron Wyden (D-OR)
  • Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
  • Edward Markey (D-MA)
  • Alex Padilla (D-CA)

Representatives

  • Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)
  • Sara Jacobs (D-CA)

The lawmakers are seeking clarification on whether Americans using VPNs (especially those routing through overseas servers) are being classified as "foreigners" under U.S. surveillance law. This classification would effectively strip them of Fourth Amendment protections against warrantless government spying under Section 702 of FISA and Executive Order 12333.

[-] itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

I don't understand why we don't like them asking this question. This seems like a really good thing to know the administrations position on so that a legal response can be made

[-] Dionysus@leminal.space 3 points 1 month ago

Asking is fine, telling people preemptively to not use the services is dangerous and spreads fear about VPNs with the less technical crowds.

[-] vanessa@realbitcoin.cash 4 points 4 weeks ago

I'm sure they'd be surveiling us regardless. I'll keep using my VPN.

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