This is an extremely short-sighted view of the situation.
The ramifications of this are huge. The law itself is an ex post facto law, which is explicitly not allowed by the Constitution, yet it passed, and granted immunity for past crimes which also violate the Constitution, and legalized a practice that by all means should also be illegal.
Not to mention the literal billions of dollars that have been spent on the program, agreements with telecom providers, equipment all over the US (world?) to split and route traffic to their special datacenters which also had to be built and maintained at incredible cost.
Simply put, there is so much investment in this from the powers that be, that it will take a strong argument from the people to demonstrate that we do not want this system to exist. That this should not be swept under the rug, or be made legal by some congressional hand waving.
Such a demonstration from the people needs to include everything that is wrong with this system in order to abolish something that has grown to this magnitude.
Likening it to fictional characters in books is about the weakest possible argument that should ever be used.
The ramifications of this are huge. The law itself is an ex post facto law, which is explicitly not allowed by the Constitution, yet it passed, and granted immunity for past crimes which also violate the Constitution, and legalized a practice that by all means should also be illegal.
Not to mention the literal billions of dollars that have been spent on the program, agreements with telecom providers, equipment all over the US (world?) to split and route traffic to their special datacenters which also had to be built and maintained at incredible cost.
Simply put, there is so much investment in this from the powers that be, that it will take a strong argument from the people to demonstrate that we do not want this system to exist. That this should not be swept under the rug, or be made legal by some congressional hand waving.
Such a demonstration from the people needs to include everything that is wrong with this system in order to abolish something that has grown to this magnitude.
Likening it to fictional characters in books is about the weakest possible argument that should ever be used.