Summary: The Effects Of Mass Surveillance
In 2013, Edward Snowden, a former CIA analyst and contractor with Booz Allen Hamilton, copied and leaked hundreds of documents from the NSA, revealing its cooperation with various other countries to establish 100% surveillance across the globe. This secret alliance was known as the “Five Eyes.” Using a secret court known as a FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) court, the Five Eyes can obtain warrants to view every crevasse of somebody's digital footprint, without probable cause. This discovery sparked a barrage of empty promises from the Obama administration to discontinue such practices, as well as the civilians pushing for more transparency.
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This is the case because it is difficult to criticize the government on the basis of morals, because law and justice don’t necessarily mean the same thing. However, a trend that is beginning to emerge is that people are scared to interact via the internet. Growth of online chat boards and messaging systems have slowed to almost a halt. The popular method for change is now in violent, anarchic protests that are performed on college campuses and in major cities across the globe. The American citizens are becoming increasingly displeased by the actions of their governments, so they are reacting with violence. All this does is perpetuate the “homegrown terrorism” label that the government slaps onto violent protesters, which almost certainly ensures nobody will take them seriously. Often times protesters can be seen burning American flags and waving swastikas around. And while it is their right to do so, it only hinders the process by which the rights of Americans can be restored. For these reasons, it can be seen that the introduction of mass surveillance to the mainstream media has influenced people to stay quiet, or often times be violent, which does nothing but erode the integrity of the democratic system that has been quintessential to American politics since its inception in
The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools to Intercept and …show more content…
This is the case because it is difficult to criticize the government on the basis of morals, because law and justice don’t necessarily mean the same thing. However, a trend that is beginning to emerge is that people are scared to interact via the internet. Growth of online chat boards and messaging systems have slowed to almost a halt. The popular method for change is now in violent, anarchic protests that are performed on college campuses and in major cities across the globe. The American citizens are becoming increasingly displeased by the actions of their governments, so they are reacting with violence. All this does is perpetuate the “homegrown terrorism” label that the government slaps onto violent protesters, which almost certainly ensures nobody will take them seriously. Often times protesters can be seen burning American flags and waving swastikas around. And while it is their right to do so, it only hinders the process by which the rights of Americans can be restored. For these reasons, it can be seen that the introduction of mass surveillance to the mainstream media has influenced people to stay quiet, or often times be violent, which does nothing but erode the integrity of the democratic system that has been quintessential to American politics since its inception in