Telecom Immunity
Says Senator Chris Dodd of your government's decision to try and make AT&T and Verizon immune from legal liability for handing over your phone and Internet records without adhering to the rule of law:
"This administration has equated corporations’ bottom lines with our nation’s security. Follow that reasoning honestly to its end, and you come to the conclusion: The larger the corporation, the more lawless it can be. If we accept Mr. McConnell’s premises, we could conceive of a corporation so wealthy, so integral to our economy, that its riches place it outside the law altogether. And if the administration’s thinking even admits that possibility, we know instinctively how flawed it is."Actually, you follow that conclusion through to its end, and you begin to wonder if our government and our corporations are now effectively the same entity. From my decade of studying how technology laws are created, I've concluded that at the very least, Congress is now a subsidiary of AT&T.