Will democrats eventually monitor our free speech like the Brits?

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2/6/13 traffichttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2274388/MI5-install-black-box-spy-devices-monitor-UK-internet-traffic.html#ixzz2KA7xIqCl:

UK government plans to track ALL web use: MI5 to install 'black box' spy devices to monitor British internet activity
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-11/18/10 huffingtonpost.com: Senator Jay Rockefeller said: “There’s a little bug inside of me which wants the FCC to say to Fox and to MSNBC, ‘Out. Off. End. Good-bye” (knowing that Fox is at the top cable news channel and MSNBC is at the bottom).

-3/22/11, The Blaze: “They [the Tea Partiers] don’t deserve the freedoms that are in the Constitution, but we’ll give it to them anyway.” Democrat Senator Lautenberg.

-1/7/11 CBS News: President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans.

-In April 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the FCC did not have the legal authority to regulate the Internet. Despite this ruling, in December Obama’s FCC voted 3-2, along party lines, to begin the Net Neutrality regulation process anyway.

-5/1/12 The Guardian: A Washington-based ethics watchdog is calling on federal regulators to revoke News Corporation's 27 Fox broadcast licences in the wake of the highly critical report on phone hacking from the UK parliament.

-7/13/12 The Washington Times: The Obama administration has given the Department of Homeland Security powers to prioritize government communications over privately owned telephone and Internet systems in emergencies.
An executive order signed June 6 “gives DHS the authority to seize control of telecommunications facilities, including telephone, cellular and wireless networks, in order to prioritize government communications over private ones in an emergency,” said Amie Stephanovich, a lawyer with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). “The previous orders did not give DHS those authorities over private and commercial networks,” Ms. Stepanovich (a lawyer with the EPIC) said. “That’s a new authority.”

-9/6/12 breitbartnews.com: Senior Obama Campaign adviser David Axelrod reportedly contacted The Gallup Organization to discuss the company's research methodology after their poll's findings were unfavorable to the President. After declining to adjust their methodology, Gallup was named in an unrelated lawsuit by the DOJ.

Answer 1

The USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand - have an Echelon capablity. This already monitors all transmissions. Current domestic surveillance laws are worked around in the following manner. The 'Brits' (namely GCHQ) monitor all US communications. The USA (namely the NSA) monitor all UK communications. If either agency (they are basically the same agency) notices something which the other nation ought to be interested in - the relevant government departments are notified. This info has then come from a 'foreign source' so is all above board.



WHAT YOU OUGHT TO BE THINKING ABOUT - is that there are other countries which undoubtedly run their own 'Echelon' systems. The Russian Federation, the Chinese, and for all I know some group including such people as the French, the Israelis etc.



There is nothing to stop them tracking everything too, and it is safe to assume they do.

Answer 2

seems rather glaring that in case you're disillusioned approximately dropping your Constitutional rights you ought to be disillusioned with the Repubs. Bush has completed greater to break the form than any Dems ever has. - warrantless wiretapping - removing of habeous corpous - the finished patriot act - and greater undergo hands i do no longer see the place the Dems are doing something to break your rights. can we desire some stiffer gun administration? i might say definite, fairly after VT and different incidents. that's inquiring for removing of gun possession, in basic terms some safer policies to stick to for procuring. loose Speech unsure the place you're going there. except you're think of on the subject of the FOX Noise campaign on the subject of the fairness Doctrine. There are actually not any Dems merchandising bringing the fairness Doctrine decrease back (it advance into abolished in 1987). There are actually not any plans for brand spanking new law Freedom of religion lower back unsure the place you're going right here. What have any Dem completed to get rid of your spectacular to prepare despite faith you desire? So i might disagree. you have somebody in place of work spectacular now that has been taking away our rights for years. So the very element you declare to be against you in all probability voted for 2 times already.

Answer 3

Wasn't it the conservative President Bush who created "free speech zones" to restrict where people could express political opinions freely, so he could conveniently avoid them?