In the information age, it’s ironic that the government is becoming more secretive than ever, with an increase in classified documents and a growing reluctance to engage in any sort of transparency.
Tag - surveillance
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Podcast, Kibbe on Liberty
Do We Still Have the Right to Question Our Government? | Guest: Jay Bhattacharya
After the Twitter Files revealed that government agencies pressured social media companies into suppressing dissident speech during lockdowns, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was one of several plaintiffs who challenged this clear violation of the First Amendment in court.
This week, the US House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban TikTok if it is not sold by the Chinese-based ByteDance company.
Podcast, Kibbe on Liberty
E-Verify Will Be Used to Surveil Americans | Guest: Rep. Thomas Massie | Ep 227
Matt Kibbe and Thomas Massie talk about the dark implications of such a program, comparing it to China's social credit system and vaccine passport program that was conceived during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
Eventually Biden got around to blasting the helium-hefted recon device out of the sky.
Social media operates at the behest of the government—a mendicant begging for permission outside an inscrutable, unknowable bureaucracy.
The Patriot Act failed miserably to thwart terrorist acts, but it successfully helped to usher in a constant police state of government surveillance and the collection of digital information over the web.
The IRS, the FBI, or the Federal Reserve, are all at minimum aconstitutional if not outright unconstitutional and yet, they continue unchallenged to this day.
21 years later, we can see the Patriot Act for what it truly is: an overreach in power by our government and a threat to the civil liberties of all Americans.