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Top Senator Warns Sweeping New Surveillance Powers Will “Inevitably Be Misused” by Trump
(theintercept.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2024
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If what Trump is going to do with the surveillance powers is exactly what it was intended the president could do with them, is it really misuse?
In software engineering, we call this "works as designed."
Yes it sucks more that Trump specifically will weild them. But the real problem is that the office of the presidency has these powers. Not specifically which president had them.
I think non-software people call this getting their face eaten by leopards.
Our "left"-centre government party here in Germany is still trying to pass the next version of a surveillance bill, which has been struck down multiple times for being unconstitutional over the years. All the while, it is getting more and more likely that we will have our own neo-nazis in power next year.
wym neo, west germany never got rid of the og nazis in the first place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Heusinger
It is amazing you don’t see it is all an act to pass and divide the blame
Yeah, I think a good approach to any type of government powers is considering that future presidents/parties you don't like will also have access to these powers.
I would absolutely love it if the threat of the future Trumps is a limiting factor on government overreach.