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The PATRIOT Act And The Whistleblowers Who Challenged Mass Surveillance After 9/11
[Editor’s Note: To mark the 20th anniversary of the rise of the American security state after the September 11th attacks, The Dissenter continues a retrospective on this transformation in policing and government.] Mark Klein worked for over twenty years as a technician for the AT&T Corporation. He blew the whistle on the AT&T’s collaboration with… Continue reading
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DC Court of Appeals Requires Environmental Review for Implementation of 5G
A federal appeals court has vacated and remanded the “arbitrary and capricious” Federal Communications Commission’s decision to allow AT&T Inc., Verizon, and other wireless carriers, cell phone facilities owners and operators to bypass historic preservation and environmental reviews for 5G networks. Continue reading
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Net neutrality and the drive to censor the internet
Under the current law, upheld by numerous court decisions and reaffirmed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2015, companies that provide internet access to users, known as internet service providers (ISPs), cannot block or impede their users’ access to any website or service. But the draft proposal published by FCC chairman Ajit Pai Wednesday,… Continue reading
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US: The Monitoring of Our Phone Calls? Government Spooks May Be Listening
The American government is in fact collecting and storing virtually every phone call, purchases, email, text message, internet searches, social media communications, health information, employment history, travel and student records, and virtually all other information of every American. Continue reading
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NSA surveillance is ‘terrorism-lite’
The NSA is creating a culture of fear, making people afraid of using their own phones, independent US journalist David Seaman told RT. In the wake of revelations on AT&T selling data to the CIA, he is calling for an overhaul of US spying programs. Continue reading
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We Need To Put Our Foot Down On Net Neutrality By Justine Bateman
The list of restrictions…is currently the plan of the United States telecom companies, who are trying to erode a long-standing Internet principle — Net Neutrality — which keeps the Internet as an open platform. As it stands now, anyone can create and distribute content on the Web and anyone can access any number of sites… Continue reading
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Spying on Americans: The Bipartisan National Security State – Telecoms Lobby US Congress By Tom Burghardt
The bipartisan consensus that encourages unaccountable secret state agencies to illegally spy on the American people under color of a limitless, and highly profitable, “war on terror” was dealt a (minor) blow October 13. Federal District Court Judge Jeffrey White denied a motion by the Obama administration that the court issue a 30-day stay to… Continue reading
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Spying on Individuals and Organizations: Anglo-American Defense Giants Entrusted with “Mastering the Internet” by Tom Burghardt
Mastering the Internet as a repressive tool for corralling recalcitrant individuals such as antiwar campaigners, environmental activists, socialists and Muslims under Britain’s draconian 2006 Terrorism Act, thousands of digital nodes designed to “master the internet” would certainly fit the bill for spooks-gone-wild. Continue reading
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Inside the AT&T – NSA ‘Secret’ Relationship
Here’s an AT&T engineer explaining just what NSA wants to keep from American citizens: that the NSA is engaged in the warrantless surveillance of all communications (whether telephone conversations, emails, IMs or in other forms) involving AT&T customers. Continue reading
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Move to End “Internet Neutrality”: Blow to Bloggers. “Ten Pin Strike against Political Freedom” By Sherwood Ross
“If Congress turns the Internet over to the telephone and cable giants, everyone who uses the Internet will be affected” Continue reading
The New Dark Age 