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You should review actual history if you are trying to pin the Patriot Act on Obama.


> I equally blame the previous administration for leaving a privacy invasive apparatus, as stated by others here this goes back to the Patriot Act.

I was talking about Bush administration. I don't know a lot about that time period since I was just a teenager during that administration and didn't care about politics back then, but I vividly remember Obama because I've always been passionate about not having the government spying on citizens, and a free and open web. Everything wrong with social media we set ourselves up for.


Didn't Obama call Snowden a traitor, too?

They're all pro-spying.


He had 8 years to dismantle it, but didn't--I think that was the point.


Trump, the supposed outsider in 2016, also had ample opportunity to do so and does again this term. Why has he not done it?


Probably the same reason Obama didn't?




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