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Congress Pulls Bill That Would Massively Expand Surveillance After 'Dramatic Showdown'::The House was set to vote on two competing bills reauthorizing a powerful mass surveillance tool, but faced backlash from rights groups.

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[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 60 points 2 years ago

such shocker bills are to wear out public outrage. they overreach, get shut down, everyone gets all comfy about it and then they come back with a less overreaching new bill that represents what they actually wanted in the first place, and people will just accept it without protest.

[-] LainOfTheWired@lemy.lol 37 points 2 years ago

Or they shove it into a bill about something completely different like feeding homeless children so they can attack you and call you a terrible person when you oppose the bill.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah I think some of us know the game by now since it never changes. It's just so sad that most people don't see the patterns.

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Sadly, that means we have to point/call out the strategy every time and hope people listen...

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago
[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not finally.

Round 1 of 10,000, sadly

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

"so we pull the usual 'wait until it's out of the press' routine and then go again?"

"exactly"

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

These fucks need to learn the momen they out of office, they'll become a target to this, if not way sooner. It so stupid and not even near-sighted.

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
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