"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
When The State Eliminates Privacy, It Owns YOU
"In terms of surveillance technology, we are far beyond Orwell’s imagination. In terms of the unaccountability of government, we exceptional and indispensable people now live a 1984 existence. In his alternative to the Queen’s Christmas speech, Edward Snowden made the point that a person born in the 21st century will never experience privacy. For new generations the word privacy will refer to something mythical, like a unicorn."
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"When The State Eliminates Privacy, It Owns YOU"
Nonsense. When you fear the state attacks on privacy, it owns you.
Roberts is simply wrong about this, and also far too defeatist for my taste. He needs to get control of his fear.
http://strike-the-root.com/privacy-conundrum