Meet Ms. Suspicious, a member of the “Online Liberation Movement.” According to AT&T, Ms. Suspicious “has nothing to hide,” so she certainly won’t mind when AT&T and their traitorous telecom buddies trash the Constitution and violate her right to privacy!
Maybe her friend, Mr. Moneybags, can shower Congress with cash and buy some of that tasty warrantless wiretapping immunity! Whoops, too real!
So who are the other members of the Online Liberation Movement, you ask? The ironically-named Ms. Proof and Ms. Forgetful, obviously.
Isn’t this so !@$% fun? It’s like we’re living in a book!
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whoa guys. lets hold off the terrorist talk for a forum where it is relevant.
Idiots, the whole lot of you.
@toddkravos: …why wouldn’t it? Acting like that’s outrageous doesn’t even make any sense.
did anyone even look at the actual campaign? They have lots of different characters. One suspicious about identity theft and reverse call lookup. Woopdedoo. They also have a person who forgets to pay bills, so auto-payments help. And another guy who is happy he can pay though his local bank. They’re all reiterations of the same thing: I CAN PAY FOR THIS AUTOMATICALLY EACH MONTH SECURELY ONLINE AND VIEWED DETAILED BILLS THROUGH INTERNET TUBES.
It’s just a god damn silly campaign. They had a bunch of characters with goofy names.
You might as well claim that AT&T is trying to steal away our childhood friends, the Mr Men.
@jackal676:
Still, he made you look like a jackass.
@freshyill:
I agree.
This post sounds like a redneck sounding off after his 6th beer.
Oh bite me AT&T. You’re monsters.
I am consistently reminded of that episode of Bullshit where they put the “average” people in that surveillance van to “watch the terrorist’s house” and they all inevitably panned over to watch the amorous neighbors next door.
I don’t trust anybody to listen in on anything I may say on the phone, because I know that everybody is human deep down and everybody has the potential (likelyhood?) to listen in on irrelevant conversations if they know they won’t ever be caught. It’s a part of human nature, in a way. No system that involves real live people listening in on other real live people will EVER be completely devoid of unnecessary snooping.
When someone tells me that I shouldn’t mind because I’m not doing anything wrong, I always ask them when I can come over and watch him/her and their SO have sex. After all, they are doing nothing wrong, so it shouldn’t be a problem.
I have yet had a good response to that argument.
@00447447: Umm, not so much. Trying to counter my claims with a bunch of questions that just take what I’ve said to the extreme opposite (i.e.: “So you think that we should submit to those who attack us?”) is something a third-grader could do, and would do for lack of a legitimate counter. And following it up with a diversionary dilution of mangled history without a relevant point doesn’t add much. But anyway, thanks for your thoughtful comments, as they really add something to this forum. Or should I just say “troll” and try to ignore you? I guess we’ll just wait and see.
@crescentia:
What’s wrong with you, anyway? You should totally take cac’s advice and read the entire Koran so that you have a chance of deciphering those clues about some mysterious nugget of truth that cac refuses to “spoon feed” to you just so you can come back to this post in a month or so and agree with whatever it is cac is not actually saying but rather alluding to in a truly sanctimonious and inconceivably preposterous manner. I mean, c’mon, if you don’t know that this whole thing started in 458 B.C. when Orniminilith (AKA Orny the crazy caveman muslim) suicide clubbed his way into the annuls of history, you are just an ignorant publicly educated slob and you should just go back to eating beany weany and watching cartoons in your underwear. You have no right to speak your mind unless you have at very least a history minor from an Ivy League university. Free thought, philosophy and logic have no place in political discussion, because every answer lies in history, which of course is all totally accurate because there is no such thing as more than one side to a story, and historical accounts are always totally relevant to the current situation because the whole world and the people in it absolutely never change one iota.
@jackal676:
HA!!!!!
The mind boggles at the arrogance of these conspiracy pinheads who think that the US government’s anti-terror agencies give a wet fart about their phone calls. Seriously, do you actually think that the FBI has the interest, or the manpower, to check up on your communications habits? Is some evil man sitting at a desk in Virginia trying to ferret out the MoveOn agitators so they can be blacklisted, or trying to determine who’s buying gay porn so they can be entered in the Master Plan database? Do you even know anyone in the federal law enforcement community, or in the intelligence community? Do you think these people have some secret agenda, or are guided by the White House’s evil agenda, to subdue the Left? If so, you have vastly overestimated your own importance, and allowed your imagination to amplify your latent paranoia or delusions of self-importance.
Terrorists use cellular communications to organize their operations. Computers are very good at recognizing patterns among the massive amounts of data created by communications networks. When significant patterns are found, the data are isolated and then forensically examined to determine if there is criminal intent. It’s as simple as that.
Nobody cares about you.
The mind boggles at the arrogance of these conspiracy pinheads who think that the US government’s anti-terror agencies give a wet fart about their phone calls. Seriously, do you actually think that the FBI has the interest, or the manpower, to check up on your communications habits? Is some evil man sitting at a desk in Virginia trying to ferret out the MoveOn agitators so they can be blacklisted, or trying to determine who’s buying gay porn so they can be entered in the Master Plan database? Do you even know anyone in the federal law enforcement community, or in the intelligence community? Do you think these people have some secret agenda, or are guided by the White House’s evil agenda, to subdue the Left? If so, you have vastly overestimated your own importance, and allowed your imagination to amplify your latent paranoia or delusions of self-importance.
Terrorists use cellular communications to organize their operations. Computers are very good at recognizing patterns among the massive amounts of data created by communications networks. When significant patterns are found, the data are isolated and then forensically examined to determine if there is criminal intent. It’s as simple as that.
Nobody cares about you.
This has nothing to do with wiretapping…it’s something to do with online billing. It still makes no sense, but there’s nothing about wiretapping here.
Stop with the sensationalism, goddammit.
@AtomicPlayboy: Oh they’ve gotten to you.
Also, why does this have more Diggs than anything I’ve ever seen before on this site? Can noone read? Does everyone just see the headline and go “OMG TEH GOVERNMENT BE STEALING MAH BRAINS!!!1″? Idiots.
@Balisong: lol we’re talking about digg here. you surprised? Add the words “Obama Kevin Rose” and you’ll get triple what it has now.
@jackal676:
I’m still waiting for you to show us that you have some facts or evidence-historical, anecdotal or otherwise-to back up any of your ridiculous claims. Your arguments are high in emotion and conjecture, but lack in intelligence and data. In other words, you are all cock, no balls.
@00447447:
Sorry bud, but after checking out your recent posts, I conclude that you are all balls and no brains, hence my ignoring of your current baiting attempt. Smell ya later, troll.
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