The companies complicit in the NSA’s broad, overarching surveillance of the American public have been slow to comment on a program which, as senators are quick to tell you, has been hoovering up your personal information for years without you being any the wiser.
Verizon was the first to go public, at least sort of. Though the company refused to either confirm or deny that the leaked spy order was real, they did point out that the spy order “forbids Verizon from revealing the order’s existence.”
That’s a little more than we were able to get out of Google, Apple, AOL or Facebook, all caught up on the PRISM side, where a leaked “top secret” document confirmed all of their involvement. Each company insisted that they had “never even heard of” PRISM.
The denials aren’t even close to credible, but they are all eerily similar, all making it a point to say that the government isn’t accessing their servers “directly,” an oddly specific claim if, as they also insist, they’ve never even heard of it. It seems likely this isn’t a coincidence.
Yahoo! didn’t deny involvement in PRISM, but included the same “direct access” denial. Microsoft claimed they “don’t participate” in PRISM, despite the document, whose authenticity was confirmed by the Director of National Intelligence earlier today, saying Microsoft not only does participate, but was indeed the first company to do so, in 2008.
Paltalk stands alone at the moment in having issued no statement at all about the matter, meaning they also stand alone in not having said anything readily disproven by the already known facts.
bush and obama administrations should be in prison. if the FBI wont arrest these criminals, they lets just overthrow the f-cking circus.
overpaid corrupt, liars with no truth in sight, we lock up whistleblowers and others who make public the criminal elements of the government, and we promote banks with drug laundry pasts with more money and bailouts.
Come on people…this should come as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention – and does not live in a kool-aid driven world. All these companies are owned/governed by the high-powered who want to rule the world, well out of sight of the subjugated masses. The majority of the general population breathed a sigh of relief and approval when Congress passed stuff like the Patriot Act, NDAA, and the other tomes because they were told it would protect them from the terrorists. Protect them from the bad guys over there… They weren't told it would NOT protect them from the bad guys here…you know, the ones who are elected and appointed to run the government. But, well, it's really too late now. The country is too fractured and stratified to ever come together to hit the reset button.
As that great philosopher T-Bird said as he sailed off into oblivion…"There ain't no coming back!!"
Our government is doing precisely and exactly what these communication giants want done. For the corporate rich fund 90% of all political campaigning done in America, they own body and soul 90% of politicians and its all about how best to organize and administer a slave labor society.