Friday, December 20, 2019

No one was blind

Six ways we were blind to screaming red flags about government surveillance

We had the usual trade offs and knew the procedure from history going back to John Adams and the sedition acts. Our fourth or fifth time, probably, if we include the civil war.  We are good a the hypocrisy.

If we are blind it is  to the side effects, naturally. The side effects of the new technology is that NSA snooping implies criminal snooping and much of the utility of tech drops, as a result.

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