[kictanet] The self correcting nature of the American system? Judge rules against NSA tapping program. Snowden vindicated?

[Kivuva]

lol

+1 Bardu.

The Land of The Free!

Snowden and Wikileaks have been a real diplomatic nightmare for Uncle Sam.

Ali, That NSA ruling by federal district court Judge Richard Leon can be
part of the larger grand scheme. I hope you get the drift.

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On 17 December 2013 07:05, Badru Ntege <badru.ntege at nftconsult.com> wrote:

>   Ali
>
>  When you spend the last twenty plus years preaching privacy and the
> virtuals of a free and open society and then you get your hands a caught in
> the cookie jar, you have no choice but to publicly swallow humble pie.
>
>  More commennts within
>
>   On 12/17/13 4:59 AM, "Ali Hussein" <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:
>
>    Listers
>
>  Apologies for cross posting.
>
>  In a landmark ruling a Federal District Court judge ruled on Monday that
> the National Security Agency program that is systematically keeping records
> of all Americans’ (and non Americans) phone calls most likely violates the
> Constitution, and he ordered the government to stop collecting data on two
> plaintiffs’ personal calls and destroy the records of their calling history.
>
>
>  For the Americans to try and recover some moral authority they needed to
> do this.  Which by the way I like since as thin as it maybe it becomes a
> scary world where no one has Moral authority.
>
>
>
>  Despite the system being broken, is the American influence on Internet
> Governance the best we have right now? I can't imagine such a ruling in
> China or Russia, let alone India, Brazil or South Africa - the so called
> BRICS countries championing a new dispensation on Internet Governance..
>
>
>
>   I still think we need to take this opportunity to widen the discussion
> on how we want to see our internet governed in future.   And thus the BRICS
> to start this discussion I think can only have future positive outcomes.
>
>  We tend to have a local pre-occupation on Internet governance but this
> discussion needs to be global.
>
>
>
>  Badru
>
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