TIL That the government's mass surveillance programs operating under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, have never stopped an act of terrorism.

Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world · edit-2 2 days ago

TIL That the government's mass surveillance programs operating under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, have never stopped an act of terrorism.

jj4211@lemmy.world · 19 hours ago

I suppose the better word would be it never “caught” a single planned act. Your point can be taken that it is impossible to prove whether or not it stopped an attack due to deterrence effect of awareness of the surveillance. Though I would argue that it would have simply made them more guarded and difficult to monitor (using E2E encryption, etc), and so the effect is that only carefree generally lawful folks actually got caught up in the surveillance.

TIL That the government's mass surveillance programs operating under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, have never stopped an act of terrorism.

TIL That the government's mass surveillance programs operating under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, have never stopped an act of terrorism.

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