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.

  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      1 year 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.

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      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.

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