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A Controversial US Surveillance Program May Get Slipped Into a ‘Must-Pass’ Defense Bill. (www.wired.com)

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A Controversial US Surveillance Program May Get Slipped Into a ‘Must-Pass’ Defense Bill.::Congressional leaders are discussing ways to reauthorize Section 702 surveillance, including by attaching it to the National Defense Authorization Act, Capitol Hill sources tell WIRED.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

If it's free, you're the product. (In this case the target of propaganda.)

This used to not be true for things that were not only free-as-in-beer but also freely licensed; but nowadays literally the only reason why anyone in their right mind might want to edit Wikipedia is that they think they can influence public opinion that way, so it is definitely true there too.