Facebook has hired the Patriot Act's co-author and "day-to-day manager" to be its new general counsel

[doctorow]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/04/22/mass-surveillance-r-us.html

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[karl_jones]

Mass surveillance loves company.

[KathyPartdeux]

So - coals to Newcastle again?

[FGD135]

[karl_jones]

It’s anagram time for Jennifer Gillian Newstead:

Federal Jail: Newest Inning

[Papasan]

[Melted_Crayons]

This is what FB is about: managing false narratives.

[RandomDude]

This is the hundredth final nail in the coffin that screams no matter what, even if human lives depend on me joining back, I will never have anything to do with Facebook for the rest of my existence and neither will anyone I may spawn

[SpeedRacer]

I hope she protects Face-Zucker just as well as she protected my freedom.

[FGD135]

So, rebranding as Freedombook?
Maybe roughly one year before the next presidential election?

[Manqueman]

To put it politely, no matter what the corporate media says (or mindlessly echos), Facebook is a far right operation.
In other words, the news at the post is in no way surprising.

[TripleE]

This is fine.

[Pensketch]

There are so many nails in the coffin that it’s starting to look like the Iron Throne.

My question is, when will it be buried already?

[nungesser]

If I were Facebook, and I could hire literally any lawyer in the country, I’d think that the State Department’s chief legal advisor wouldn’t exactly be my first choice.