The discovery process allows information from the NSA's collection process to be introduced as evidence in a lawsuit.
This puts the info into the PUBLIC RECORD
And allows it to be used in OTHER LAWSUITS.
So, if you sue me, I can get information about your criminal acts into the record through discovery. And then somebody else can charge you with your crime, and get you convicted based on evidence which can only be used in your trial, because it was DISCOVERED in my lawsuit, which YOU INITIATED.
The important thing is to look what happened after the act came in, what people liked and did not like, what was changed and not changed.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2016/02/08/was-the-1996-telecommunications-act-successful-in-promoting-competition/
By understanding it, you can better see how a similar, not identical, act could break up the Internet monopolies
Meanwhile the sex cult NXIVM
Turns out to not be a sex cult after all
That was just the salacious part of their operation
But it distracts people from seeing the bigger picture
Of the criminal empire that NXIVM tied together
How the Bronfman family who made their fortune
Running booze muggling routes into the USA
Was now running other smuggling routes
On the southern border
Rather than slog through the 117 tweets exposing this,
Have a look at this one page consolidated summary
Of the whole sordid corrup criminal network
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1022112574391889921.html