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Yeah in the same sense of how we all democratically opted in to mass surveillance or encryption breaking. Let's be honest the people who are at the receiving end of this technology haven't been democratically decided anything in a long time. What this actually is, is what Sheldon Wolin called inverted totalitarianism and when it comes to these police measures that's not even an exaggeration.

Just as a random question, how many people do you think know that these guys (https://longreads.com/2019/06/21/nothing-kept-me-up-at-night...) are flying above American cities

>>Barrin+(OP)
The solution is to vote-out the out-of-touch career politicians then, no?

I have a suspicion, being a Senator for 40 years sort of removes you from the concerns of everyday Americans.

These are the same Senators (and Representatives) that vote for these measures. They'll never be the target of these surveillance schemes... and when they are, they throw a huge fit[1] because they're supposedly above all of it. They're the same people who ban guns from the public, but own operate and illegally traffic them themselves[2].

They're the same ones that don't have to be strip searched every time they fly, but I digress...

[1] https://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/13/pelosi-alle...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/2...

>>Alupis+Z
It’s not clear to me that the Senators voting for this aren’t similarly situated to “everyday Americans.” Remember when armed civilians stormed the Michigan Capitol and nothing happened? They aren’t politically connected, etc. Maybe the folks who keep electing these senators correctly perceive that the power of the state won’t be used against them, so long as they belong to the majority.