Dave Lane 
🇳🇿So, fellow US citizens, what do we think about this? https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/13/us-intelligence-report-purchase-americans-personal-data/ And, fellow non-US citizens, what do we think about the implications for the rest of us?
Jamie Booth@lightweight it's broken in so many ways. Has been for a long time. But this is no worse than the other methods they have to get data. FISA is largely a rubber stamp.
@jamie Indeed. The key thing is that most people in the US think the gov't is above that sort of thing (at least with US citizens) and I'm not sure how many would worry about how non-US citizens are treated. We need to make sure everyone knows how the US gov't is generally duplicitous. (and it's much worse for non-US citizens where the US gov't is concerned).
💯 Americans get brainwashed pretty hard.