Tech Giants Issue Call for Limits on Government Surveillance

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/09/techn ... -home&_r=0


"Eight prominent technology companies, bruised by revelations of government spying on their customers’ data and scrambling to repair the damage to their reputations, are mounting a public campaign to urge President Obama and Congress to set new limits on government surveillance."...

Good to see some pushback finally.

And now the NSA is watching me play World Of Warcraft? Scary. Scary waste of taxpayer money.

FredHayek wrote: Good to see some pushback finally.

And now the NSA is watching me play World Of Warcraft? Scary. Scary waste of taxpayer money.

Fred, dont flatter yourself, you interest nobody.
just keep repeating Fox news and Rush. Stay fascinating!
Loser

That was Yahoo btw.

So you agree with the expansion of the Patriot Act under President Obama?

FredHayek wrote: That was Yahoo btw.

So you agree with the expansion of the Patriot Act under President Obama?

No, I hate it, why the outrage now?
You were silent until Obama did this, I was opposed with both.
you are a hack, if it serves your party you get on the bandwagon.
You make me sick, get some principles.

Actually I was opposed to the Patriot Act and the TSA, found them to be at best a feel-good measure.
Some people don't fall into the normal rounds holes of political parties, for example, I supported homosexual marriage 20 years before Obama did.

FredHayek wrote: Actually I was opposed to the Patriot Act and the TSA, found them to be at best a feel-good measure.
Some people don't fall into the normal rounds holes of political parties, for example, I supported homosexual marriage 20 years before Obama did.

You could have supported gay marriages 6 years ago and you would have beat out President Pivot Obama.

(By the way... I supported gay rights of all sorts around 1972... what took you so long Fred?)

I was 6 in 1972?
Homosexual rights just seemed to fit in with my libertarian thinking.

1972? Impressive, back then they were still calling it a mental illness.

FredHayek wrote: Good to see some pushback finally.

And now the NSA is watching me play World Of Warcraft? Scary. Scary waste of taxpayer money.

Nothing will stop it. It's been going on since the beginning of time. Read Neal Stephenson's "The Baroque Cycle" and "Cryptonomicon." Both are fictional histories (but a lot of real history in those books) about the movement of information and money and how it drives the world.

Good winter reading (about 4500 pages worth).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_Cycle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon

Prefer Snowcrash, but Cryptonomicon was good too. Bought Baroque Cycle but haven't cracked it open yet.