[myvoiceismypass]

You should review actual history if you are trying to pin the Patriot Act on Obama.

[giancarlostoro]

> I equally blame the previous administration for leaving a privacy invasive apparatus, as stated by others here this goes back to the Patriot Act.

I was talking about Bush administration. I don't know a lot about that time period since I was just a teenager during that administration and didn't care about politics back then, but I vividly remember Obama because I've always been passionate about not having the government spying on citizens, and a free and open web. Everything wrong with social media we set ourselves up for.

[sejje]

Didn't Obama call Snowden a traitor, too?

They're all pro-spying.

[sejje]

He had 8 years to dismantle it, but didn't--I think that was the point.

[hypeatei]

Trump, the supposed outsider in 2016, also had ample opportunity to do so and does again this term. Why has he not done it?