The NSA whistleblower Snowden said creating the Department of Homeland Security 'was always a mistake,' but 'its plan to become the Speech Police is the final straw.'
The NSA whistleblower said creating the Department of Homeland Security"was always a mistake," but"its plan to become the Speech Police is the final straw."NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security should be shut down after reporting shined light on the agency's sweeping campaign to police what it deems disinformation online, an effort that raised alarm among civil liberties groups.
DHS, formed in 2002 in the wake of the September 11 attacks,"was always a mistake, a costly artifact of the hysteric post-9/11 authoritarianism that left us no more safe, but much less free," Snowden continued."Its plan to become the Speech Police is the final straw."on Monday detailing secretive DHS attempts to"curb speech it considers dangerous" by trying to pressure and"influence tech platforms" such as Twitter and Facebook.
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