02/05/18 Overnight links
Cato: Fear and mass surveillance: Our constitutionally toxic political cocktail
Reason: “Selective surveillance outrage” and “situational libertarianism” isn’t good enough, Congress!
The Hill: Rep. Gowdy: Surveillance warrant would not have been authorized without Steele dossier
Buzzfeed: The privacy fight is dead in DC, and not even the Nunes memo is likely to revive it
TechCrunch: How Facebook stole the news business
Yahoo: YouTube begins flagging videos backed by governments
Newsweek: Giving middle finger to police is a First Amendment right, man argues in federal lawsuit
Activist Post: Super Bowl security has turned Minneapolis into a Police State
High Times: Indiana has finally legalized industrial hemp
Newsweek: Oregon marijuana overproduction: State produces three times more pot than can be legally consumed