User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-5384369-20140204220033

I'm just going to ask a question and give an OPINION, and please, no one jump my bones or flip out about it. I do have a right to feelings, and you can't dictate opinions. You can counter them, because I may be wrong in certain aspects, but please do not tell me I am uneducated, or dumb, or flat out that my opinion is wrong or something else in that aspect. It's honestly just what I'm thinking at reading it at first glance and not doing a ton of research beyond what I already know, and partial because my lack of knowledege on the topic.

Firstly, is it really right to advocate on this topic, and ask for others to "fight back"? I mean, I know that other sites may be doing it, and I may not necessarily agree with what's been happening with the suvellience (becasue let's be honest, what's been happening is pretty shady), but I'll play devil's advocate for today. I'm not here to fight against your opinion or whatever else you think.

I feel as if there's a reason for why this has been happening, I'm pretty sure that people didn't decide at random "Hey let's just watch and track what people are doing on the internet" (but maybe they did). There has to be a reason for why the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 was put into place in the first place (I mean, my guess is terrorist attacks... but....), right?

Also, I have been wondering why it's become such a large issue right now? Is it possible that survellience has been happening for a while, but it's just now that they've been "caught"? I mean, don't we all know the saying, "Careful what you say on the internet becasue it never goes away", isn't that already an indescreet sign that people are watching what's happening. It might not be like, a person hovering over another computer screen, but don't we all have the idea of that information being looked at? Maybe it's not the same thing as what's happening now, maybe it is, I don't really know.

I'm all for the freedom of expression such as religion and press and speech, and I think that privacy is a good thing, but like I said, I'm just expressing another opinion, it's not meant to be a counter attack, but just my train of thought that just happened to wander.