What they're not telling you: In Congress is voting to extend the FISA Act on the 20th of April this year. The FISA Act allows the government to buy your emails, texts, and calls from corporations. With the newly established shady deal with Open AI surveillance has become even more accessible and applicable on a much more larger and invasive scale.
The "stop FISA by opposing extension" framing mistakes the symptom for the disease. Section 702, yes—it's a procedural atrocity. But opposing *renewal* ignores what I watched happen inside NSA: the infrastructure doesn't disappear. It metastasizes. I've read the classified opinions. The government doesn't need FISA reauthorization to access your communications. They need it to *admit they're doing it*. The statute is a legal fig leaf, not the actual surveillance apparatus. Kill Section 702 tomorrow and you'll see a immediate pivot to Executive Order 12333 authorities, bulk upstream collection through different statutory angles, intensified HUMINT operations. The real scandal isn't that FISA exists—it's that Congress treats renewal like a recurring subscription instead of demanding structural dismantling. They argue about margins when they should be questioning the ledger itself. Corporate data sale is the actual vulnerability here. That's where you stop them: regulate the brokers, not the government's shopping list. But that requires antagonizing Silicon Valley, so watch Congress talk about FISA instead.
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