It'll die, because the elite want it to die. The surveillance apparatus will keep on collecting information on the public, nothing will change as >>2-san said. But if the public believes it's gone, it'll provide the perfect cover and explanation for when the next false-flag attack hits, perhaps as soon as the end of the year. And then the legislation will be resurrected and made 10x worse.
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Anonymous2015-05-31 2:19
I hope I wont be posting in this thread within the next month about how >>4-san totally called it, but I probably will be.
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Anonymous2015-05-31 2:31
They're trying to create a car tracking network now too I see. For public safety of course.
I'm so excited I'm going to do a new years eve style count down to the death of the PATRIOT Act. And set off fireworks and shit.
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Anonymous2015-05-31 13:42
>>10 Why do you want the PATRIOT act to die? Are you not a patriot? Would you rather app for Red Star OS than live the American dream™?
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Anonymous2015-05-31 17:09
I love how the USA Freedom Act actually makes the PATRIOT Act worse. It's 1984 level double speak.
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Anonymous2015-05-31 17:35
Even if the Patriot Act expires, the government could continue using Section 215 provisions in ongoing investigations of terror suspects—they just couldn’t use them in any new investigations. The NSA has been winding down its metadata collection program this week, and is scheduled to sever all connections with phone companies by Sunday afternoon.
Not to sound like one of the pol-tards, but IT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING.
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Anonymous2015-05-31 17:41
IT'S FUCKING OVER. THE NSA META DATA COLLECTION PROGRAM DIES AT 8pm ET as far as we know, but hey that's something right?
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Anonymous2015-05-31 23:08
Obongo must be shitting his pants. Oh, well he probably isn't, since he'll just reinterpret the constitution to have everything in it as under executive authority anyway.
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Anonymous2015-06-01 1:00
>>15 I love how he called it ``inaction by the Senate.'' As if the only duty of the Senate is to pass all his bills unanimously, and if it does anything but that it isn't functioning.
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Anonymous2015-06-01 1:34
Fuck. Well they passed the USA Freedom act. But the patriot act is still dead right now. If you're american you are living in a patriot-act-less america right now. Enjoy it while you can for the next few days. It will never happen again.
All is still lost. But this was a special day. It takes the NSA one day to restart their metadata collection. They had to wind down their program and restart it because of this.
And apparently they're going to vote again on Tuesday. So it should be down for the time being. I'm enjoying the picture in my head of the machines being turned off and the links to the phone companies being silent and disconnected. I know it doesn't mean anything but it's still fun to picture.
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Anonymous2015-06-01 6:57
>>23 You mean they're getting rid of their old stuff? Somehow I doubt that's actually going to happen.
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Anonymous2015-06-02 1:03
>>25 Who knows what actually happened, but apparently the machines are off. I think everything they collected up until then is ok, and investigations they started while the act was active can continue. It doesn't matter anyways since everything becomes law again tomorrow.
They passed it. In 6 months the metadata collection will be outsourced to the telephone companies and data is accessed via FISA court orders. Whoop de fucking do. It does nothing. On the plus side the metadata will be retained by private companies now, and hence full of security holes. Shit will probably get leaked by some anonymous sql injecting kiddy. I'm looking forward to people freaking over it.