One way of looking at it.https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/1084255959969611776 …
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Another is that *this* happened after a massive 15y expansion of US surveillance and security powers, which utterly failed to stop it. And asking the people to sacrifice more of their privacy and liberty after a security state failure is the oldest of authoritarian impulses.
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I think there's a pretty good argument to make that the real story isn't CI, it's that white collar crime has been ridiculously underprosecuted/investigated.https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/1084255959969611776 …
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I don't know how many opportunities to validly stop Trump long before he became a candidate with financial / tax / criminal investigation there have been, but it got to be dozens.
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(And no, this isn't original thought. But I don't think using Trump as an argument for CI authorities is either)
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White collar crime. Massively increased and unaccountable, corporate spending in politics. Failure to regulate or effectively monitor activity of huge social media companies.
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As much as I think better oversight of social media cos is need, I don't think it's in the same category as the more general white collar and money in politics failures. Social media oversight is largely a failure of the last ~7 years, but white collar at very least since ~2001.
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