> What are they trying to accomplish beyond "unaccountable secret government court to piss off technologists that have a hobby of paying attention to it"?
We can make a solid guess. They are probably thinking "we will be given lots of money to spy on people" and "this is a low risk source of profits, governments generally don't roll back authoritarian policies".
These things are usually alliances of convenience between people who make huge amounts of money off a policy and people who then get to spy on their ex-girlfriend and get a real high out of that sort of power. Most of the initial oomph comes from people with money.
We can make a solid guess. They are probably thinking "we will be given lots of money to spy on people" and "this is a low risk source of profits, governments generally don't roll back authoritarian policies".
These things are usually alliances of convenience between people who make huge amounts of money off a policy and people who then get to spy on their ex-girlfriend and get a real high out of that sort of power. Most of the initial oomph comes from people with money.