insanity. A ‘regime’ = like the one we have currently in the WH, if they get the control they want - would use this to inter ‘enemies of the state’ as THEY perceive them, according to their agenda.
Hitler is rolling in his grave with jealousy over HIS not having such tools.
GOP led internet overreach ping.
“It isn’t legal for gov’t to be allowed to read our mail - why should this be legal?”
The courts have previously decided that it’s OK for the FedGov to keep a record of who you call, without them recording or listening to the actual conversation.
The government can (and probably does) keep track of who you send mail to (by OCR’ing the envelopes as they are processed). It’s an offshoot of the mail processing system, they read the To and From address to route mail. Keep a record of that, and you know commo paths. They don’t read the mail, just who’s sending and receiving.
Just extend that to the Internets- keep track of packet requests and packet deliveries, associated with a person. Ignore content, just who sends, who receives.
Ever notice how quick government gets a hold of Facebook and Myspace and so on information when somebody screws up? Even if the alleged perp uses a phony login? They are doing it now, they just want to do it better and more formally and more permanently.
Voting in real Americans will help curb this skeevy behaviour.