Quote from: Agestorzrxx on June 07, 2015, 10:14:01 AM

The Surveillance under the law is not a bad thing.
It's the price we should pay to keep us safe.

Here we go again. This reply is worthless and was made because of *insert signature campaign*.

Quote from: bryant.coleman on June 07, 2015, 09:24:17 AM

I am yet to see a single evidence to support the argument that this mass surveillance has reduced the terrorist activity in any way. If it was so, the Boston bombings, in which a number of innocent people were killed would have never happened. The perpetrators were under the FBI watch-list, and only a few days before the bombings, the FBI had received a warning from Russia about them. Seems like the CIA / FBI was spying on normal people, and had no time to do surveillance on terrorist suspects.

Indeed. If this was actually working surely 90% or more of the attacks would be prevented. However, if I search "how to make a bomb" and similar things they would potentially come after me.
Let's face it, the terrorists know about the surveillance and they are going to beat it (already are). It's not like they will intercept a real call in which they will hear "Okay, plan bomb there and there at time X".
This mass surveillance thing is just a violation of my privacy and serves no real purpose.
Luckily a few right people have started getting aware and we're developing encrypted means of communication.