Interesting no one reported this. Either everyone missed this or it is still in place.
The EFF reported on the expiration in the brief window when there were no authorizations:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/yes-section-215-expire...
It's being reintroduced as the equally doublespeak "USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act":
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6172
I'd be interested to know if any behavior was changed during the few weeks that the permissions were not covered by either law.
rate-limit edit:
I don't think Baader Meinhoff applies when I already know what a backcronym is and also have to extrapolate the first letter of all the words to get the joke.
Was there a show or pop culture thing that has people leaning towards this joke?
If anything, this could be a perceptive bias where I am forcing meaning into something, but a FUBAR Defense Act is exactly what that poster was going for. Who knows about the other one I saw earlier.
https://eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/section-215-expired-year-r...
> "On March 15, 2020, Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act—a surveillance law with a rich history of government overreach and abuse—expired due to its sunset clause. Along with two other PATRIOT Act provisions, Section 215 lapsed after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on a broader set of reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)."
https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/shared/314afactsh...