Patriot Act 2.0
1472 sats \ 5000 boost \ 15 comments \ @shyfire 15 Oct 2022 bitcoin
TIL that Biden just made the patriot act much more expansive. This is legit hair on fire stuff.
Summary: Basically, there were certain provisions in the Patriot Act which placed some reasonable restrictions on what the state could do in terms of mass surveillance. These have been lifted and no longer apply.
Video review of the change: https://rumble.com/v1nszp2-biden-is-spying-on-you.html
Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/07/national-security-memorandum-on-partial-revocation-of-presidential-policy-directive-28/
p.s. I'm boosting this because I think people need to be aware of it.
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200 sats \ 1 reply \ @bitcointerest 16 Oct 2022
This has been going on for years now. I feel like people don't care anymore because if they did we would have seen an uprising long ago.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @DeezSats 16 Oct 2022
It's being ramped up and accelerated like there's no time left to toy around. This is bigger than anybody can comprehend, there is only power left, no law. The goal of this power is to steal more without waking those being stolen from.
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200 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 16 Oct 2022
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110 sats \ 0 replies \ @DeezSats 16 Oct 2022
The PATRIOT ACT (a long acronym, supposedly thought up within 40 days of 911, which is the phone number you call for emergencies in America) was an enormous violation of the rights of citizens. To expand upon it is another level of clown, given it is under the false pretense of "domestic terrorism" with Jan6 being the clown 🤡 reason.
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110 sats \ 0 replies \ @TonyGiorgio 16 Oct 2022
The government will never protect or respect your privacy. You must seek it for yourself. This will be even more important as time goes on and we knew this.
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131 sats \ 1 reply \ @designsats 15 Oct 2022
How perfect it is someone can write a law, sign it in name of Joseph Biden without the brain of Joseph Biden being able to comprehend it cos he is long gone.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @premitive1 15 Oct 2022
Who comprehends the laws anymore?
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12 sats \ 2 replies \ @satoshisat 16 Oct 2022
Is there a TL;DR version of this?
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @shyfire OP 16 Oct 2022
The video is the best TLDR
Basically, there were certain provisions in the Patriot Act which placed some reasonable restrictions on what the state could do in terms of mass surveillance. These have been lifted and no longer apply.
The most concerning part imo is that mass surveillance and signals operations no longer must only be for counter terrorism or counter intelligence purposes. Also, no care needs to be given to protect identities or privacy of individuals who are targetted by surveillance.
In addition, racial/gender/sexual orientation/religion can now be used as criteria for setting up signals intelligence operations.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @DeezSats 16 Oct 2022
And everyone can and will be targets.
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6 sats \ 1 reply \ @shyfire OP 15 Oct 2022
@sethforprivacy not sure if you still hangout here, but this seems like it would interest you.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sethforprivacy 17 Oct 2022
Thanks for the shoutout, turns out this was just a very poorly handled revision of the XO, and not a revocation:
https://twitter.com/willchamberlain/status/1578558703082491904
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12 sats \ 0 replies \ @Wil 16 Oct 2022
Who is John Galt?
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @sethforprivacy 17 Oct 2022
It turns out this was just a very poorly handled revision of the XO, and not a revocation:
https://twitter.com/willchamberlain/status/1578558703082491904
I was up in arms at first as well, but seems that it's much ado about nothing in reality.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @shyfire OP 17 Oct 2022
Thanks for pointing that out!
After looking into it though, I wouldn't say that there is nothing going on here.
See specifically: (3) understanding or assessing transnational threats that impact global security, including climate and other ecological change, public health risks, humanitarian threats, political instability, and geographic rivalry;
This provides a much broader scope than the revoked "counterintelligence and anti-terrorism objectives" part of PPD-28.
Now, basically any flavor of the month can be considered a transnational threat to global security - climate change, racism, political dissent, etc. Whatever the ruling class don't approve of.
So yeah, while I wouldn't call this Patriot Act 2.0, it certainly does make many things worse - more like a V1.5 let's say.
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