Decius wrote:

flynn23 wrote:
In short, why is the government doing this? What do they have to gain from this?

Rhetorical, I know, but because they can. Their lawyers think its in their interest to seek the broadest possible authority they can seek and apply it as broadly as they can. This fits with the overall administration policies post 9-11 - maximize the executive. Someone realized it was possible to do this, and so they started doing it. Occasionally they bust a pedophile, so its arguably effective.

I'm skeptical. Most of the post 9-11 reaction was driven by showmanship, not actual effectiveness. I suspect there's a financial motive here. Are people trying to smuggle data via netwalking? Have the series of tubes gotten so well monitored that they are ineffective for transport? That seems unlikely.

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