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Submission + - Alternatives to Slashdot post beta? 8

An anonymous reader writes: Like many Slashdotters, I intend to stop visiting Slashdot after the beta changeover. After years of steady decline in the quality of discussions here, the beta will be the last straw. What sites alternative to Slashdot have others found? The best I have found has been arstechnica.com, but it has been a while since I've looked for tech discussion sites.

Comment Re:Not interested in reading your text messages (Score 1) 306

Forget terrorist watch-list. The data is also scraped for any evidence of any crime, which then allows them to permanently store that data and share it with the FBI and DOJ. Since the DOJ can't go after any person who ever commits a crime, the outcome is probably that they can just coerce just about anyone to do anything they want since any mistakes made are there in a neat little package for later use.

Comment Re:Strawman (Score 1) 306

Not quite. Data about most things citizens do has a fairly short shelf-life before the NSA wipes it. However, any data that suggests any crime has taken place is stored and shared with other Government agencies.

The Government isn't building a dossier on every citizen, they are building a gigantic list of selectively enforceable violations so that they can coerce most people whenever they want.

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