It's been a long time since I took the effort to post something. It's tempting to think that things have just been better; maybe less things have pissed me off. But more likely, I was wasn't paying attention.
Today I stopped to read Slashdot and found something to make me mad after only two articles. The Washington Post reports that the Senate has voted to give immunity to the telecommunication companies for violating our privacy (at the request of the government). Now, rather than be held accountable for blindly following the requests of the government they will likely be forgiven and will not have learned any lesson from the mistake.
I'm confused that a company would let the government's overzealous desire to monitor it's own citizens fool them into disregarding their customer's privacy. Didn't they notice that the war could have been avoided with some careful consideration rather than drastic action? Or the PATRIOT Act? We also had to let them listen to our phone conversations and read our e-mail? And it's not that I'm against them reading email of terrorist suspects, just get a warrant and read all the e-mail you want.
The worst part of all of this isn't that there are enough stupid senators that would vote for something like this, but that the 3 most likely presidential candidates all supported it. (Technically Hillary didn't vote at all, but that is even worse in my opinion). Apparently even a president who is a step in the right direction still isn't going to be perfect, what a surprise. It feels good to vent again.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
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