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LeylaHadiFirstPaper 5 - 06 Mar 2015 - Main.LeylaHadi
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It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind you how section and subsection titles are formatted. | | | Data Surveillance and Metadata | |
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> | When the issue was focused entirely on national security and the need to monitor foreign communication, the argument that George W. Bush's surveillance directive was a necessary program could at least stand firm on the idea that Americans communicating with Americans were never going to be targeted. Just suspicious outsiders to Constitutional protection would be monitored to protect the "freedom" that this country extols. After Snowden though, it's clear that this is not the case. His documents... | | |
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> | If we're looking at the First Amendment as a broad, general concept against a totalitarian regime, it should be enough to protect citizens from data surveillance. While technically Congress has not made a law that abridges freedom of speech, which is what the Amendment literally says, we are living in a world in which the federal government has permitted and used data mining. If the First Amendment did what it was supposed to do in a binary system of total freedom versus anything else (whether regulated or prohibited freedom of speech), there would be total freedom - to say, to know, to inquire, to be. Already though, it has failed, for what has it done? It's been unable to let Americans speak freely, without warrantless appropriation of their speech by the government, prior to and after Snowden's revelations, because of piecemeal interpretation of its purpose. | | | Rationale Behind Exceptions
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