These are laws ghosts written by surveillance capitalist oligarchs. Privacy/sec communities have been suspecting this for decades, and especially since the Snowden leaks and big techs evolution since.

Forget the historical examples, and all the conspiracy denialism from Dems/liberals about the authoritarian attack vector of, and risks to democracy posed by, a secret police and surveillance state... Imagine implementing this draconian shit in a country that is currently being overthrown by a fascist regime. It's almost like the Dem/Liberal political class is a controlled opposition working for the same oligarchs as the R's — hell bent on returning the serfs to feudalism — huh?

This is why I consider America to be suffering from a propaganda-induced mental-illness epidemic, and I mean the average American; all the non-voters and average D, just as much as the average R. Sure, the R's are the most mentally-ill, but this isn't a fucking contest. The media the average D's consume has been oligarch-owned for decades, too. They consistently fall in line and support neoliberal, oligarch-financed, corporate-whores like Newsom, time and time again. Instead of viewing him and all of his analogues as an enemy of the people — vital to the success of oligarchy and fascism — they view him as a voice of reason and leader. They've been okay with funding blatant genocide the entire time (most still are). They've been okay with the destruction of the working class and economic mobility for over 5 decades. They were okay with the Fox News FASCIST STATE MEDIA propaganda operation acting in plain site, for 30 god damn years. The R's didn't occur in a vacuum. The D's were a vital player in the R's success.

Now here, as always, we have the D's/liberals continuing to construct big brother FOR FASCISM, even in the final hour, when the coup is almost complete, while acting like they are doing it to "protect" the working class, instead of to enslave them.