Whither the mission creep?
"...the United States does not collect signals intelligence for the purpose of suppressing or burdening criticism or dissent, or for disadvantaging persons based on their ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, or religion."
Arguably bollocks, but even with benefit of the doubt saying they don't do so now, even a casual reading of history suggests they will get there before too long. As some wise soul put it on this forum "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." Look for 'extremism', whatever that is, and shorn of the context, intent or background to a comment or action, you'll surely find what you're after eventually, if you look from just the right angle.
This article on its own should really be enough for the powers that be to give serious thought to what they're created, but of course it won't. We'll just stumble along into some sort of horrendous police state because we had the tools and no-one could really be arsed to work out where it was going, and should any try, they'll doubtless be the first to 'fit the profile'.
We're off to hell in a fucking handbasket.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
