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"Neckbeards sending FOIA requests isn't serving any purpose."

Could you be more judgmental? Whomever is sending these requests, shaving habits aside, may not adhere to your premise that 'The best outcome here is to get them to stop collecting the data'. It could very well be that they just want to know what has been collected on them.



>It could very well be that they just want to know what has been collected on them.

Sophistry. He says he can think of nothing that would require monitoring. So he's protesting. Nothing wrong with that, just be honest about it. IIRC there was at least one website set up to automate FOIA requests to the NSA after the Snowden info came out. Why is this guy's story special? It isn't. Why is this even a story?

I'm appalled by the NSA activity, I support Snowden, and I want change, but this story is designed to agitate for political effect and nothing more.


Negativity is easier than sending FOIA requests. QED.




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