MSNBC Discovers Government Surveillance, Ignores Its Long History
MSNBC reports on labor unions suing the Trump administration for social media surveillance of noncitizens, framing it as a novel concern. While the lawsuit against Trump's policies is valid, the article conveniently forgets a consistent, bipartisan history of government surveillance. The Obama-Biden administration, lauded by corporate media, dramatically expanded NSA's data collection, including
the PRISM program. So, 'surveillance of noncitizens' isn't a uniquely Trumpian invention; it's a feature, not a bug, of the US national security apparatus. It appears the 'threat to civil liberties' only becomes newsworthy when it's politically convenient to condemn the *other* party. How many 'threats' did these very same outlets rationalize when their preferred administration was at the helm?
One might wonder if the real story isn't the surveillance itself, but the selective outrage applied to it.