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The US Constitution was always a hopeful mirage ...

It just took an Orange Fat Orangutan, and a Temu Fredo Corleone with a Nazi haircut, to expose the fragility and vacuum at the core of the "Land of the Free".

The lede from techdirt from their article on this matter:

DHS Is Hunting Down Trump Critics. The ‘Free Speech’ Warriors Are Mighty Quiet.

  For years, we’ve been subjected to an endless parade of hyperventilating claims about the Biden administration’s supposed “censorship industrial complex.” We were told, over and over again, that the government was weaponizing its power to silence conservative speech. The evidence for this? Some angry emails from White House staffers that Facebook ignored. That was basically it. The Supreme Court looked at it and said there was no standing because there was no evidence of coercion (and even suggested that the plaintiffs had fabricated some of the facts, unsupported by reality).

  But now we have actual, documented cases of the federal government using its surveillance apparatus to track down and intimidate Americans for nothing more than criticizing government policy. And wouldn’t you know it, the same people who spent years screaming about censorship are suddenly very quiet.

~ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/05/dhs-is-hunting-down-trum...

And the tech platforms seem to be handing over data, for these joke ass administrative warrants? What a joke.

This sort of absolute bullshit is just going to blow up in their faces & shatter what shreds of trust we have left in the hyperscalers, big cloud. All that international distrust will mount evem faster if these self awarded non-judicial "warrants" can be used to get whatever data these repulsive liberty-smashing creeps want, if they get to invade our privacy at will & without restraint. Absolute joke; stand up to this horseshit like your lives depend on it, Big Cloud.