RealGunner wrote:If they start checking people on mentioning b0/\/\bs etc. Then they find out they are pirating. Will they act? They should according to the law.

Will it not have a domino affect on rest of the people? I mean probably 70% of people with internet pirate knowingly or not knowingly.

RealGunner wrote:So no more freedom of speech then?

If i am telling my mate about how i deployed C-4 behind the building on counter strike. I have to be discrete about that in the fear of being flagged?

I Have Mono wrote:The American citizen of today are a lot better armed then the German citizen of the 40's so it would be hard to do that on a nationwide scale, one reason why Americans like their guns.

rwo power wrote:
Exactly that is the problem. I guess now you really understand why I do what I do when I told you I neither use Twitter, Facebook, Skype, Google, Youtube etc and why I don't have a mobile phone either as I do not like the idea of people being able to track me wherever I go. ^^.

rwo power wrote:Well, there are allegedly about 850 000 people involved in sifting through the data. How many of them can really be trusted not to use information they find for their own means?

I Have Mono wrote:Perfect way to get the BND to start a file on you

I Have Mono wrote:The FBI only has like 15000 people, no way the NSA has 850,000 employees.

I Have Mono wrote:People are to paranoid about the government, trust me there is nothing to be alarmed about.

I Have Mono wrote:Filter, screened, and forgotten, not stored for eternity.

I Have Mono wrote:So you have a problem with being monitered when the effects of being monitered are only felt if you are doing something wrong ?

At various points over the past two years, Internal Revenue Service officials singled out for scrutiny not only groups with “tea party” or “patriot” in their names but also nonprofit groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution, according to documents in an audit conducted by the agency’s inspector general.

The documents, obtained by The Washington Post from a congressional aide with knowledge of the findings, show that the IRS field office in charge of evaluating applications for tax-exempt status decided to focus on groups making statements that “criticize how the country is being run” and those that were involved in educating Americans “on the Constitution and Bill of Rights.”

I Have Mono wrote:Im grateful that the us hasn't been attacked since 9/11 when before we were attacked every 3-5 years consistent. People have gotte. Close but no one has been successful and that's why I'm ok with giving up some liberties at the expense of living. Who cares if the government finds out I have a cavity and store it. Whoopadie doo who cares

Filter, screened, and forgotten, not stored for eternity.

So you have a problem with being monitered when the effects of being monitered are only felt if you are doing something wrong ?

Americans hate terrorists and love our kids, right? So you might be shocked to know that preschoolers with guns have taken more lives so far this year than the single U.S. terrorist attack, which claimed four lives in Boston.

This is admittedly tongue-in-cheek, but one has to wonder if the NSA's PRISM program would have saved more lives had it been monitoring toddlers - or gun owners - rather than suspected terrorists.

In 2010, 13,186 people died in terrorist attacks worldwide, while 31,672 people were killed with firearms in America alone, reports CNN's Samuel Burke.

Then ponder this: Americans suffer assaults on their privacy — they are groped in public and wiretapped en masse — and surrender their constitutional protections against unwarranted searches in the name of the war on terror, yet they cannot muster the will to protect children from mass murder with military-style weapons. We have spent more than $1 trillion on homeland security since Sept. 11, 2001, yet have withheld annual funding of less than $3 million for research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on gun violence.

Why are the First, Fourth and Fifth amendments subject to erosion in the name of homeland security, but the Second Amendment is beyond compromise in the name of saving innocent lives?

The risks of terrorism are not so much greater than the risks of gun violence that a disproportionate response is justified. Between 1969 and 2009, according to a 2011 Heritage Foundation study, 5,586 people were killed in terrorist attacks against the United States or its interests abroad. By comparison, about 30,000 people were killed by guns in the United States every year between 1986 and 2010. This means that about five times as many Americans are killed every year by guns than have been killed in terrorist attacks since Richard Nixon took office.