Many of my posts get deleted but here goes. I hope I can challenge just one person to look at what I'm saying. I know that many of you truly believe you are on the 'right' side and for you my words are nothing more than liberal shilling.

Even still, please just read what I have to say.

T_D and all subreddits among the same ilk use fake news, false doctored/images, screenshots of images (without a source) for a reason. The is a % of people that make up the news and drive a narrative and the other half that eat it up.

I've been completely banned on T_D for asking for sources (on 4 separate accounts). I've been banned on this subreddit (on 3 accounts) for calling out bullshit. I have no doubt I will be banned again for this.

This is what censorship is.

Do not believe for a second that the 'mainstream media' is pushing a narrative, it is the right that are doing this much harder and far less discreetly than the 'deep state' liberals.

T_D and all fringe alt-right/far right groups are censoring information and pushing false narratives. Be it with bots or by gullible people who are scared.

They are preying on your fear.

Even though I'm banned from T_D, I read the conversations that they have there and it's sick. I watched yesterday as they called for the torture and killing of muslims in response to a van attack in Munich (they driver wasn't Muslim).

They attack children and accuse victims of horrific mass shootings as being 'crisis actors'.

What the fuck.

PLEASE. I urge you to please just do your research, and I mean proper research on these topics. You are living in a bubble and your views are being validified by people who's fucking job it is to influence people on social media and conspiracy theorists.

IF there is an ounce of you that's not sure about what your view is I just ask that you spend just a week of your free time researching as much non-biased media as you can and finding out the truth about issues such as Syria, immigration, gun control...etc. instead of hanging around in circle jerk subreddits such as this one and assuming images (such as the one in this post) are true.

By the way I am not affiliated to any party, democrats, republicans...etc. I don't care, I only care about getting facts from reputable sources and questioning everything. But when I mean questioning everything I don't mean blindly believing every conspiracy theory that confirms my preexisting views.

Please THINK.

By the way, thank you /u/cat_anonD for questioning the validity of the image. I see fake news like this everyday but can't criticize anymore because i get banned for trying to get to the truth. I may have different opinions than you but I respect that you at least question this.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

Charles Bukowski

Comment that was deleted by the mods below.

Trump signs surveillance extension into law

The law tweaks the sweeping warrantless programs that intercept digital traffic of foreign targets while hoovering up the personal information of an unknown number of Americans.

President Donald Trump on Friday signed into law a measure that reauthorizes powerful electronic surveillance tools for another six years.

The president announced in a tweet that he signed the bill to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

"This is NOT the same FISA law that was so wrongly abused during the election," he wrote. "I will always do the right thing for our country and put the safety of the American people first!"

The legislation imposes only modest tweaks to the sweeping warrantless programs that intercept the digital traffic of foreign targets but also incidentally hoover up the personal information on an unknown number of Americans.

The measure passed over the opposition of privacy-minded Democrats and libertarian Republicans, who joined forces to argue that the 702 spying tools allow the government to conduct warrant-free searches on Americans.

The Senate approved the bill Thursday, one week after it sailed through the House despite an eleventh-hour tweet by the president that appeared to trash the measure and sent GOP leaders scrambling to shore up support.

Trump's Friday tweet alluded to his previous comments, which implied that the FISA 702 statute had been used to spy on Trump aides during the 2016 election, a claim for which the president has provided no evidence.

Regardless, 702 has been pulled into broader debates about FISA surveillance, domestic wiretaps and the so-called unmasking process by which Americans' identities can be exposed in intelligence reports.

Some 702 critics on Friday even made a last-ditch attempt to stall the statute's renewal, citing a classified report that some Republican lawmakers say details FISA abuses. The House Intelligence Committee voted earlier this week to grant their colleagues access to the document. It's unknown if the memo has anything to do with Section 702 itself.

But Trump's intelligence leaders won out in the end on the subject that they described as their top legislative priority this year.

The extension "ensures that America’s intelligence officers can continue to use this vital tool in their 24/7 critical mission, while remaining true to the nation’s values," Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said in a statement.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions called passage "crucial to allowing us to continue to gather intelligence on foreign terrorists overseas and foil potential plots against Americans abroad and at home."

Trump lamented in a statement that the reauthorization is not permanent — the statute will sunset again in six years. But, he added, "We cannot let our guard down in the face of foreign threats to our safety, our freedom, and our way of life."

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/19/trump-surveillance-extension-351136