The article is just awash in good points.
Some of the points will really hit hard:
"This is still America. Cash!"
(from the movie 'Seabiscuit').
Long ago Google was getting more revenue
from outside the US than inside; so,
the article outlines in effect how Google
is in line to take a torpedo in 1/2 + of
their revenue.
If my start up works, then I, too, will
have international users. Chuck Schumer,
listen up: We're talking $ for NY.
Here's what I think will happen:
(1) Nearly
all politicians will run for cover and
keep their heads down, issue cliches and
platitudes, and do nothing important.
(2) Legal cases are and will be brought.
E.g., apparently Google is bringing a case.
By now there have to be a lot of people
with 'standing' to bring cases -- how
about 130 million or so Verizon
customers?
A standard claim of those cases will be
violation of at least the Fourth
Amendment.
(3) The cases will make it to the
SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the US)
which will accept some of the more
important cases.
(4) Whatever opinions the SCOTUS
hands down, bet your last penny that
the SCOTUS will, as a no-brainer,
have
the Constitution and the Fourth
Amendment come out 100%
iron-clad whole. For the NSA
behavior, the FISA 'court',
the 'Patriot Act', expendable!
Then all the politicians can
come out of hiding and blame
the SCOTUS and otherwise
philosophize,
posture, pontificate, genuflect,
etc.
But it does help that a lot
of ordinary citizens, at HN,
The Atlantic, EFF, ACLU,
etc. agree with the OP.
It also helps that little
Ecuador just told the big,
bad, mean US to take their
NSA and stuff it up their
wherever and, besides,
stuff the 'trade agreement',
and, besides, here's $24 million
apparently the US needs to
educate its citizens on the
Constitution.
I'm a fully loyal US citizen,
but I do remember
"Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the
right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to
petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
So, I've got "freedom of speech".
And I don't
have to agree with
some of the worst of W, Cheney,
Obama, Hillary, or, now,
the guy, what's his name,
you know, the one supported
by H. J. Heinz and its 57
varieties, our current
Secretary of State,
the little hyperflexible
invertebrate
John Kerry,
and to think I voted for that
twit for president.
Thank you, thank you, thank you
SCOTUS, the Constitution,
and the founding fathers.
Now we learn again how much
we need you!
Jihaders, expect no comfort,
and you will have none. The
NSA people were never the brightest
bulbs on the tree, and we don't
need their new work since 9/11
to defend the US.
Long ago Google was getting more revenue from outside the US than inside; so, the article outlines in effect how Google is in line to take a torpedo in 1/2 + of their revenue.
If my start up works, then I, too, will have international users. Chuck Schumer, listen up: We're talking $ for NY.
Here's what I think will happen:
(1) Nearly all politicians will run for cover and keep their heads down, issue cliches and platitudes, and do nothing important.
(2) Legal cases are and will be brought. E.g., apparently Google is bringing a case. By now there have to be a lot of people with 'standing' to bring cases -- how about 130 million or so Verizon customers? A standard claim of those cases will be violation of at least the Fourth Amendment.
(3) The cases will make it to the SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the US) which will accept some of the more important cases.
(4) Whatever opinions the SCOTUS hands down, bet your last penny that the SCOTUS will, as a no-brainer, have the Constitution and the Fourth Amendment come out 100% iron-clad whole. For the NSA behavior, the FISA 'court', the 'Patriot Act', expendable!
Then all the politicians can come out of hiding and blame the SCOTUS and otherwise philosophize, posture, pontificate, genuflect, etc.
But it does help that a lot of ordinary citizens, at HN, The Atlantic, EFF, ACLU, etc. agree with the OP.
It also helps that little Ecuador just told the big, bad, mean US to take their NSA and stuff it up their wherever and, besides, stuff the 'trade agreement', and, besides, here's $24 million apparently the US needs to educate its citizens on the Constitution.
I'm a fully loyal US citizen, but I do remember
"Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
So, I've got "freedom of speech".
And I don't have to agree with some of the worst of W, Cheney, Obama, Hillary, or, now, the guy, what's his name, you know, the one supported by H. J. Heinz and its 57 varieties, our current Secretary of State, the little hyperflexible invertebrate John Kerry, and to think I voted for that twit for president.
Thank you, thank you, thank you SCOTUS, the Constitution, and the founding fathers. Now we learn again how much we need you!
Jihaders, expect no comfort, and you will have none. The NSA people were never the brightest bulbs on the tree, and we don't need their new work since 9/11 to defend the US.