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- u2u2u2, on 10/22/2007, -5/+99class action lawsuit?
- heresy_fnord, on 10/18/2007, -0/+36If the Government pays anyone for wiretapping, Comcast or otherwise, then really we are paying the Government to wiretap us. We pay taxes to keep the Government running, and the Government will take that tax money and use it to pay Comcast for their wiretapping services. Sucks doesn't it?
- jamie06260, on 10/22/2007, -5/+36I second that.
- gamer31, on 10/21/2007, -2/+32The government can afford to wiretap anyone, it's not like they're paying for it WE are. compared to the $9 trillion we already have in debt whats a few extra billion going to do.
- Nick2632, on 10/21/2007, -1/+28It's stories like these that make me sick to even continue to the article.
- FTLJohnson, on 10/17/2007, -0/+22Cost to wiretap a customer of Comcast: $1000
Cost to wiretap a customer of ATT: $0 - G-RaZoR, on 10/22/2007, -0/+18Realizing both companies are evil corporations? Priceless.
- zeous, on 10/17/2007, -0/+18Bin Laden says: I'm still free, what about you?
- MasterThief117, on 10/17/2007, -2/+19Third that motion.
- notthemama, on 10/17/2007, -0/+17"This means that the government cant afford to wiretap random poeple. That mean that for the poeple who are being wiretapped, there must be a pretty good reason to justify the cost."
You're talking two different things here. warrantless wiretapping versus the charge for any wiretapping.
Warrantless wiretapping automatically has no good reason, otherwise the agency could get a warrant.
$1k wiretapping, with a warrant, isn't unreasonable in itself, except that the taxpayers pay it. So if the agency or department decides to do a lot of wiretapping, they simply demand a bigger budget. It also means if they have some extra money in the budget for the year, they could spend it on this to wiretap you so that next year's budget isn't smaller. - blackbrutha, on 10/17/2007, -5/+22Where are the lawyers at. Definately worthy of class action status. $100 billion sounds fair.
- theNazz, on 10/22/2007, -1/+16It's not the government's time or money so they will gladly use both to control the people however they see fit.
- twiz514, on 10/17/2007, -1/+15I hate when Diggers just slap a sensationalist title onto an article like this. You do realize that these are court ordered wiretaps, right? It's not like they're just selling them for a price. When the government requires a wiretap from them, they charge 1000.
Also http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/docs/handbook.pdf - gamer31, on 10/22/2007, -0/+13Comcast just notified the government that you have suspicious online behavior and offered them a discount for their wiretap on you.
- G-RaZoR, on 10/22/2007, -0/+12Only $500 for the first 6 months! Then its $750 each month after. Oh the Deal!
- inactive, on 10/22/2007, -0/+9Don't forget, if you wiretap out of your calling area, there's a roaming charge, and if you cancel your wiretap before your contract period is up, there's an extra $100,000 charge. However, if you subscribe to the Friends and Family Wiretap Plan, your kids can wiretap for free.
- TroubleInMind, on 10/17/2007, -1/+10Should it be cheaper? I don't get it.
- lateralus, on 10/22/2007, -0/+98 year contract required for those prices.
- diggduggjoe, on 10/19/2007, -3/+11The problem is that with such a windfall, Comcast becomes even less likely to defend their clients. Defending clients costs money while serving up your clients life's history is very lucrative. No wonder AT&T bent over so easily, they saw a cash cow.
- ThinkBox, on 10/17/2007, -1/+9Yeah, I paid comcast through taxes to wiretap. Wiretapping is wrong. Everyone is yelling to impeach Bush for it among many other reasons. And you dont see what's wrong with Comcast profiting off this?
- G-RaZoR, on 10/17/2007, -0/+8Since they went public? NASDAQ:CMCSA. Google it: http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ACMCSA
- snotrokit, on 10/17/2007, -0/+7so pissed I can't spell. kinda takes away from it doesn't it.
NO INCUMBENTS - hows that? - rickbauls, on 10/17/2007, -1/+8Where's your liberties now?
- amsterdamordeth, on 10/17/2007, -0/+6don't flatter yourself. It is hard to forget the name of ONE of the most annoying people on digg.
- inactive, on 10/22/2007, -2/+8The lawyers are too busy laughing at your pathetic grasp of the law.
- colincornaby, on 10/17/2007, -0/+6I'm not sure I know whether to be upset that Comcast feels my privacy is for sale, or to be happy that Comcast isn't giving it away like Verizon is.
- Lyanto, on 10/17/2007, -4/+10That's like saying "When using the term "the world", please say what planet you are referring to." The United States is implied through context.
- bluedefender8, on 10/17/2007, -0/+6Same topic, different take: http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9797632-38.html?t ...
- squegie, on 10/17/2007, -0/+5This is probably chepaer than what we previously paid for wiretapping. WIth just a phone, the FBI may coordinate with the telco, sent out a 3 man team to rig your phone line, and of course, you're always paying whoever is monitoring the wiretap.
This way, you pay Comcast a flat fee, they perform the tap and provide you with logs that you can search for intersting tidbits.
So in essence, this is saving the taxpayers money. - SiNN4R, on 10/17/2007, -0/+5I think they're planning on just renaming the Iraq war to the bureau of sectarian violence and call it mission accomplished.
- rudy23, on 10/17/2007, -9/+14why? Its not that anyone can pay $1000 and phone tap whom they want. comcast charges the government for what they need to do to make this information available securely to the authorities. considering that comcast has technical and legal stuff to take care of I dont see what they did wrong.
- frozenpxl, on 10/17/2007, -3/+8We'll have them back when Ron Paul is elected.
- sishgupta, on 10/17/2007, -0/+5If corporations can't get paid by the government to violate your rights, you simply aren't living in capitalist america!
I smell a new internet meme:
In capitalist America, government pays to violate your rights! - WilliamDavis, on 10/17/2007, -0/+5If the government really requires a wiretap from them, why would they charge at all?
Police Officer: "License and Registration, Please?"
Me: "That will be $25 officer, considering the cost of my time and effort to provide you with that."
Me: "OOWWWW OWWWWW OUCH! OUCH! HELP!!!!" - WilliamDavis, on 10/17/2007, -0/+4Actually, if you're a comcast customer, you might have paid twice. You can pay through taxes to be wiretapped, and at the same time, pay comcast for their wonderul service in allowing you to be wiretapped.
- DeFex, on 10/17/2007, -0/+4your money at work
taxpayer > treasury > excuse such as "terrorists" > business friends of politicians.
they are sucking your whole country dry.
when you vote you get to decide which corporations get your money, the "i do not want them ripping me off anymore" choice is not going to be on the ballot. - amsterdamordeth, on 10/17/2007, -1/+5This must be the shortest comment without excessive CAPS and the least amount of swear words I've ever seen from you. Congratulations on becoming less obscene and annoying.
- ThinkBox, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3Getting screwed by major corporations is what Americans are best at... wait sorry no, rolling over and then begging that our own government double team us with spiky toys along with the major corporations... that... that is what we do best.
- NJPENSO, on 10/18/2007, -0/+3***** did I make it? In before 1984?
- snotrokit, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3sorry, but VOIP packets are easy to cap.
- SeethisPass, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3It's the same bums either way.
It worked the first time - ryanmct, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3Wa-wa-wait a second. They're spending THAT MUCH money on this? Isn't there a war we need to get out of, or a poverty issue, or that whole US dollar being worth nothing stuff that we could invest in?
- kaelyiesta, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3I suppose we should start listing out all our presuppositions then? You start, let me know in a day or two when you are finished.
- SiNN4R, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3It is. We will blanket the world with despair soon. Suffering shall rain down from the sky.
- frozenpxl, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3Alright, and while I'm spending time during my worship of Satan, I'll make a ritual of throwing thousands of tax dollars into my 'devil-offering pot of constitutional idiocy' because I am a brain dead American.
- haiduz, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2Tip: When visiting an american website be smart enough to infer that references to government means the American government, unless otherwise noted.
- Jadart, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2um.. you people are idiots. read the other article (above) on it. No big deal, probably same as it was before Bush. There is probably a reason that they charge for it too. Maybe so that it has to be recorded/reported by the agencies as an expense.I think the world is as ***** up as the next digger but damn you people are becoming paranoid. Oh same goes from the GW stuff too.
- amsterdamordeth, on 10/17/2007, -1/+3Oh yes, thank you for informing me that the government can't print more on their laserjets. Thank you for the 4th grade economics lesson.
When there is too little money circulating in our economy and the supply of goods/services is mostly out of reach of consumers who need them, we have deflation or a recession. Consumer spending then drops and businesses have to lower the price of their products and services, then they have less money to buy supplies and capital. The Fed regulates this by printing more money and dumping it into the economy.
But when they send trillions of US dollars into, let's say CHINA or Saudi Arabia, they are taking out money from the general public, which means they have to PRINT MORE MONEY. - inactive, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2I wonder how they report it on their income statement, ummm... Spying On US Citizens Revenue ?
- G-RaZoR, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2Does that include Unlimited multimedia wiretapping also? I would sign up if it included wiretap assistance and had a nationwide wiretapping network.
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