Not that I'm saying there's no possibility that it won't be passed, but... you guys are seriously saying it has to be fake because there's no chance that the same national government that passed the Patriot Act without a national vote could do this?
Hahaha. Again, I'm not saying there's no chance it's fake, but if you guys think it COULDN'T be real... I call that denial.
Firstly, it's 2009, not 2006. The situation in Congress is quite different, and they have in the past and recently again shot down several pieces of legislation that would have expanded ISP's power over connections and content (remember all that Net Neutrality boojum?).
And the Patriot Act is a pretty good example of why I'm
not worried. Essentially, the CIA conned the Congress into making the phone companies wire effectively (copies of) all telephone communications through one room at Langly. Do you know what they've done with that extraordinary information? Exactly nothing, because it's way beyond the capability of even the CIA, much less whatever pitiful organization this responsibility would get shafted to, to wrangle all that content.
I'm all for cynicism, but don't take the flying leap over to conspiracy theories.
I think ever since Obama took out Workerdrone's livestream of XCOM because of 'Too Many Buttons', there was a security leak, and the government doesn't want to go through a ton of red tape to get their job done.
Although I obviously could be wrong...