The man is such a disaster in so many other ways, that getting one thing right is more of a half-cup of punch in a turd-bowl.
Rand Paul Pledges to Immediately End NSA Mass Surveillance If Elected President
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#12I understand that Rand Paul is heavily into the "rights" of corporations. Is that actually true? I personally am rather more worried about corporate surveillance than NSA surveillance. That's why I pay cash for everything, and take pains to blackhole web analytics servers with my hosts file.
take pains to blackhole web analytics servers with my hosts file
There are many projects online that do that for you. All you need to do( just once ) is to download the file and add custom domains if you have some, but this is usually not required since everything that doesn't break the "web experience" is blocked by default.
Re: Rand Paul Pledges to Immediately End NSA Mass Surveillance If Elected President
#13I understand that Rand Paul is heavily into the "rights" of corporations. Is that actually true? I personally am rather more worried about corporate surveillance than NSA surveillance. That's why I pay cash for everything, and take pains to blackhole web analytics servers with my hosts file.
Why would you be more worried about corporate surveillance?
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#14I understand that Rand Paul is heavily into the "rights" of corporations. Is that actually true? I personally am rather more worried about corporate surveillance than NSA surveillance. That's why I pay cash for everything, and take pains to blackhole web analytics servers with my hosts file.
take pains to blackhole web analytics servers with my hosts file There are many projects online that do that for you. All you need to do( just once ) is to download the file and add custom domains if you have some, but this is usually not required since everything that doesn't break the "web experience" is blocked by default.
> There are many project online that do that for you.
Can you give an example?
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#15A politician pledging something? I'm sold. Sign me up!
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#16I understand that Rand Paul is heavily into the "rights" of corporations. Is that actually true? I personally am rather more worried about corporate surveillance than NSA surveillance. That's why I pay cash for everything, and take pains to blackhole web analytics servers with my hosts file.
Corporations are not as worrisome as government because their power to act on that data is less. No company in america is going to bust down my door with rifles or throw me in prison because I think things they don't like. The worst they can do (assuming the government doesn't totally break down) is refuse to do business with me. But the government can do a lot worse and have a history of doing a lot worse.
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#17The man is such a disaster in so many other ways, that getting one thing right is more of a half-cup of punch in a turd-bowl.
I honestly think that between POTUS Rand Paul and NSA mass surveillance programs, the latter is the leser of two evils.
It would be very nice to see other candidates making similar pledges though.
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#19One thing I'm confident in is that the further Rand Paul makes in the election process, the more discussion and awareness of mass surveillance's threat to democracy itself.
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#20This seems like a slightly more plausible version of Newt Gingrich promising a moon colony if elected President. And by slightly more I mean something that he would most likely not fulfill once in office. All candidates promise big things to get elected and most of those things never happen.