Thomas Drake
speaker
874 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Thomas Drake’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We don't actually have to get rid of you in sort of the classic way, old school, go out and shoot you.
We'll debank you.
We'll de-socialize you.
We'll cut you off from your connections.
And then what?
You're basically rendered powerless.
Because if you don't have a voice, guess what?
But only power has a voice?
You're also, this data, by the way, I find it just incredibly dystopian.
The data broker loophole.
Remember, I mentioned the third-party doctrine, but the data broker loophole
Federal agencies, ICE, FBI, they routinely purchase all this data, by the way, or have these special arrangements.
Remember, these companies aren't doing it for free.
They're not.
It's actually a business decision for them.
They get to make a lot of money from the central government by turning over the subscriber records.
And courts have not yet adjudicated fully this practice.
It's an untested, it still is a largely untested legal gray area.
You did see the recent case with the geofencing.
The Supreme Court is a fairly narrow decision, but it does in fact, to their credit, in terms of the majority opinion, does acknowledge that it's a search.
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