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People complain about US govt surveillance all the time. It doesn't always lead to change but there's a healthy degree of dissent.
by nhaliday 10y ago
People complain about US govt surveillance all the time. It doesn't always lead to change but there's a healthy degree of dissent.
- ekianjo 10y ago> healthy degree of dissent Hardly, to be honest. Most folks dont care about surveillance at all, and ask for more state powers.
- striking 10y agoWith the media (and gov't, and everyone else) bombarding non-tech Americans about how dangerous cyberterrorism could be, with the ISIS social media accounts ready to snatch up your children... I'm entirely unsurprised there are many people who would be willing to give up their privacy for "safety." If only there were a way we could inform Americans that they aren't actually doomed.
- educar 10y agoTBH, it is really only in HN threads I hear about any dissent. Snowden hasn't been pardoned and most of US appears against what he did. But China is universally seen as a repressive regime (which it probably is).