[Fractal Trader]

There's two aspects to the story:

1) They don't give direct access to their servers, but they put it in a mailbox and give the key to the NSA -- big difference, right?

2) While they claim that they are only answering to proper government requests, they cannot acknowledge any FISA request, so the statement is a red herring.

[Fractal Trader]

The true story about PRISM

[NVDave]

The “mailbox” type of access mimics the way the FBI (and presumably NSA) were allowed to access telco call data on switches back in the 90’s. The government said “we have a law requiring you to provide us with an interface” so that SS7 switches could effectively have call tracings and tapping from remote digital links.

[bronxville]

It’s the WWW so the world isn’t going to be very happy. I’m guessing it was a deliberate leakage by the administration to cause global disruption and if it doesn’t they’ll make ensure it does, the end-game being to shut down the internet.

[EasySt]

Here’s what Obama had to say in 2007 about Warrant-less Wiretaps:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=B6fnfVJzZT4

[WilliamofCarmichael]

. . . since tech companies’ cooperation with the government was revealed Thursday, tech executives have been performing a familiar dance, expressing outrage at the extent of the government’s power to access personal data . . . heaping praise upon the president as he visited Silicon Valley. . . . Even as the White House scrambled to defend its online surveillance, President Obama was mingling with . . . Silicon Valley . . .

Look these 1960s Marxist-Alinsky New Left campus brats and their ideological issue, arguably the Establishment, see us as their main enemy. It is us that they watch.

They vet the enemy and it is us.

[Chaguito]

That’s a nice little internet company you got there. Be a shame if something bad was to happen to it.

[Windflier]

Anyone seen this?

"Seriously dangerous times ahead. Deadly times. War, and censorship under the color of authority and under the pretext of of national security"

DHS insider: It’s about to get very ugly

[Timber Rattler]

In every single one of these stories, they are hiding behind the unconstitutional 'Patriot Act,' noting that what they are doing is lawful.

Well, that doesn't make it right, and I'm still torqued about THIS...when Republicans had a chance to end it but instead broke caucus members arms forcing them to vote for renewal, including Bachmann.

GOP struggles for PATRIOT Act votes

"House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) offered a stern warning to his fellow lawmakers in a closed conference meeting Wednesday at the Capitol Hill Club: Don’t you dare vote no unless you attend Mueller’s briefing and ask your questions."

[Black Agnes]

We need to pick one of these companies and begin a brutal boycott.

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