Techinsider:
Speaking at the South By Southwest conference in Austin Friday, Obama gave his view in general terms about where he stands on phone encryption and the right to privacy since he can’t comment on the Apple/FBI case specifically. But his stance can easily be applied to the FBI’s demand that Apple create a new version of iOS to unlock the iPhone that belonged to one of the suspected shooters in the San Bernardino killings.
In short, Obama thinks tech companies should create a way for law enforcement agencies to access locked devices, assuming they have probable cause for such access.
Well, at least now we know that the government’s stance comes from the top.
Very disappointing.
Less than one year left… thankfully.
Just tweeted @ him “I loved the pre inauguration Obama.. What Happened to you man? Learn more about encryption before commenting again.
The battle lines are now officially drawn. Other than Bernie Sanders, all of the assholes in the Presidential race have come down solidly against the people on this issue. Thank God it’s clear now. It’s the US Government vs. civil liberties and the people.
POTUS is either an ignorant sellout OR WORSE, an enemy of everyone who values civil liberties. Given the morons inhabiting that sheltered workshop for lawyers, the AG office, it could be either. Both Holder and Lynch are a national embarrassment. The clown circus on the right is worse, so… who speaks for us against the power of the state?
Well, the POTUS, maybe the only position in the world that comes with the complete disability to choose own devices, the permanent recording of all conversations, and the freedom to have your sex life investigated by sick old fascists like Kenneth Starr, even if there was no crime involved… is the last person in the world to say anything about privacy. It is like the pope talking about family planning.
So, he also dreams about a backdoor with a moral compass (only works for good guys, and there is only one government in the world knowing who the good guys are). There should be a minimum IQ requirement for office. Disappointing indeed.
My worst fears have been realized. I am not a conspiracy theorist. Most conspiracy theories are easily debunked. But, there’s likely some conspiring going on here. Consider these facts.
Recently, the heads of Google, Facebook, Apple, etc. met with the administration on issues regarding law enforcement’s access to personal data. Since those meetings, Obama has publicly praised Google and Facebook for their cooperation while, at the same time, set the dogs loose on Apple (both through the courts and with a PR smear campaign).
One does not need to be a loopy conspiracy theorist to speculate that, perhaps, Google, Facebook, etc. caved and gave law enforcement the backdoors they wanted while Apple dug in their heels. The former was rewarded, the latter is being punished.
Ultimate Manchurian candidate, I knew it before he was elected.
He would betray every word spoken.
Now you know what 12 dimension chess was all about.
Obama wants all your passwords and prime numbers.
hahahahahahahahahahahhaah.
Color me un disappointed…
I didn’t vote for Obama in 2012 because by then it was clear he was a worthless turd of a politician who at his ‘best’ is comparable to Richard M. Nixon at Nixon’s lowest.
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“STEM education is important! Except when we choose to completely ignore it for political reasons.”
I’m happy to disagree with you.
And, of course, the choice between compromising to get some things done and just going for total gridlock and obstruction (Republicans and Supreme Court nominees, anyone?) isn’t really much of a choice, and either way President Obama went he was going to disappoint a lot of people.
Sanders is the ONLY candidate who disapproves of domestic spying and voted against the Patriot Act. only one.
hmm, if Obama were a conspiracy Manchurian candidate, then when is he going to do the bad stuff (like destroying the nation, etc, all the crap conservative nut jobs claim)? instead he just fixed our economy and we have lower unemployment and gas prices. oops.
Hilarious. All you poor Obama supporters now have to watch Apple and your messiah go to war. Which side do you choose? Good to see Tim Cook get a dose of reality from the left.
He fixed the economy so well that a large portion of the population is so disenfranchised they are willing to consider Trump (btw, have you noticed how many Reagan Democrats are considering Trump?). Gas prices are lower because there is no demand because people have lost hope in the future after 8 years of this gasbag.
Of course Obama (Democrat) was going to side with big government. He is the standard bearer of the party of big government and big government Never. Stops. Remember, government is just another name for the things we do together, like looking into each other’s phones. If you disagree with this definition of government, you are a rethuglican
It’s a popular narrative: He’s a centrist & compromises explain his far right results/actions. Nope, a centrist doesn’t assassinate u.s. citizens with no ‘due process’. A centrist doesn’t decide to wage war in Libya & Syria to create failed states. A centrist doesn’t prosecute whistleblowers while protecting Wall Street firms & executives & giving them billions of tax dollars as a reward for their ruinous financial fraud. A centrist doesn’t push for trade deals (TPP) that put aside sovereignty and replace it with financial penalties for legislating protections of people and the environment. A centrist doesn’t advocate that the government get a wiretap into every personal communication device that is activated and monitored in secret by agencies with historical tendencies toward abuse and denial of the constitutional rights of people (e.g. FBI). Only a Nixon-like commander-in-chief would allow the armed forces to create a system of drone and air attacks guided by ‘signatures’ or unsubstantiated claims by locals that have resulted in thousands if not tens of thousands of civilian deaths in countries around the world. Only a nixon-like commander-in-chief would create the conditions where a hospital run by doctors-without-borders is bombed for over an hour while the bomber crew questions the legality but is directed to continue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike#cite_note-slate.com-13 But, fine have it your way. Obama is a centrist and was forced to compromise to get what he wanted done. Unfortunately what he compromises isn’t his ‘ideals’, it’s his honor and our humanity.
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I typically don’t go third-party, but Gary Johnson is also opposed to all this government spying nonsense.
That’s all very well stated, and I really have nothing to argue against the majority of that. However, if you look at my comment, you’ll notice I specifically spoke to compromise and said nothing about being a centrist.
The majority of things you spoke to do not need compromise because the majority of people, both in government and in the population (unfortunately) agree with bombing people and don’t care or know about privacy and rights. If you listen to the right wing, however,you’ll get a litany of items where President Obama has angered them as much as you are angered by his hardline use of drones and his continuing of President Bush’s bank/financier bailouts. That probably makes him more centrist than you or I would like to admit since he pisses everyone off fairly equally.
He can’t help that a large portion of the population are morons willing to follow a reality show star to hell.
And, since I live in an oil producing state, I can speak pretty well to your moronic statement on gas prices. Energy prices are way down specifically due to fracking. Yes, it really does produce a lot of usable oil and gas, and, yes, it does rattle my home every day several times a day — but, who cares about that while we’re all riding around in our guzzling SUVs, right? The fracking boom has been so good here, that for a couple of weeks, I paid $1.04/gallon. “Hooray!” I cheered, while simultaneously wondering when the other shoe would drop and energy works would begin to lose their jobs.
And that has happened. Thousands have lost jobs here in Oklahoma, while the CEOs and fatcats at the top continue to rake in their money, fracking as much as they can. The prices have increased, mainly due to a $10 per barrel tax President Obama placed. The industry at first cried their business would be so damaged and even more would lose their jobs — but I knew they’d raise prices to cover it. And they have, many times over.
So, you are wrong. There is a lot of demand for gas. And the energy companies know it and they have drill-baby-drilled and frack-baby-fracked their way all the way to their offshore banks.
The father of fracking here in Oklahoma just drove his SUV at high speed into a bridge embankment rather than face charges of corruption in his fracking business. (If I was a conspiracy nut, I’d say someone had him killed in an “Accident” because he was about to sing out the names of many more…)
Trump is an imbecilic know-nothing shit compared to these guys. Anyone who is going to vote for him is worse.
That’s a very good argument: That since the folks who profess values in-line with ours are angry and those who don’t share our values are angry then he must be somewhere in between.
I’ve often reconsidered my disdain for Obama. First, on the basis of internalized racism. Am I judging him on harsher scale than I would judge a white president? I decided to equate Obama to Nixon for that reason and for parallels like Nixon/China-Obama/Cuba & Nixon/Vietnam-Obama/Libya (both/war). Second, considering that the right wing constituency is encouraged to focus on Obama as a lightning-rod/symbol of all that is wrong, perhaps there is also a push from the progressive side to focus on Obama. Is Obama truly doing anything wrong or is he properly serving the majority of the people in our society whose values aren’t my own? I see too many turning to conservative & liberal ‘demagogues’ as an indication that Obama hasn’t served any portion of the public… he’s damaged all equally.
I don’t support either Clinton or Sanders. I think both are aiming at ‘goals’ that ignore the urgent ‘facts on the ground’. Neither recognizes/values the current social uprisings in the #BlackLivesMatter human rights movement or the various groups/movements to counter ‘Big Money Wash. D.C.’ such as WolfPAC, that is calling for a states convention to amend the constitution to rescind the SCOTUS ‘citizen’s united’ decision. Sanders calls for a Wash. D.C. based ‘political revolution’ just as Obama called for ‘hope & change’ 8 years ago. Same call by a different ‘elect me’ guy.
I see we have another ignoramus.. What are you on / on about?