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One of the Most Controversial US Spy Programs Just Got Quietly Renewed (www.motherjones.com)

submitted 10 months ago by jack23@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Congress blew a rare bipartisan chance to protect Americans’ calls and texts.

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[–] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I mean, do you know anyone that would actually care about this? How many would sit and read/watch a story about it out of their own interest? How loud would you have to be to get heard?

The average American is simply too stupid (read: "overworked") to care about any kind of personal civic duty. We're too busy thinking of everything we wish our country would do for us, not what we could do to save the country. Tbh, must of us don't even know what good citizens are supposed to do