Edward Snowden Warns NSA ‘Days Away From Taking Over Internet’ – Media Blackout [Video]

The National Security Agency (NSA) is just days away from quietly “taking over the internet” with a massive expansion of its surveillance powers, according to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Snowden drew attention to a thread on X originally posted by Elizabeth Goitein — the co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice — that warned of a dystopian new bill that could see the U.S. government surveillance powers beefed up to new disturbing new levels.

CoinTelegraph report: The bill in question reforms and extends a part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) known as Section 702.

Currently, the NSA can force internet service providers such as Google and Verizon to hand over sensitive data concerning NSA targets.

However, Goitein claims that through an “innocuous change” to the definition of “electronic communications surveillance provider” in the FISA 702 bill, the U.S. government could go far beyond its current scope …