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One huge peice of evidence that we can actually trust the government is that the Bush era DOJ threw a fit when the workers thought Bush's NSA went to far. Then
by rhino369 11y ago
One huge peice of evidence that we can actually trust the government is that the Bush era DOJ threw a fit when the workers thought Bush's NSA went to far. Then we had a national debate about it.
Plus even if you didn't trust the government not to go fascist they could recreate a NSA within a few months anyway.
- rayiner 11y agoThey wouldn't even need that. They'd roll tanks down to Google/Facebook HQ and have recreated it within 30 minutes. That's the absurdity of the commercial/government dichotomy approach to privacy: any government that would routinely use surveillance information against ordinary people would have no problem raiding the offices of internet/telecom companies who have all that data anyway.