Considering how much "Hacker News" posts about "OFMG, GOVMENT SPY ON US" like every damn day, is it surprising to see the red tape that the political opinion ha

Considering how much "Hacker News" posts about "OFMG, GOVMENT SPY ON US" like every damn day, is it surprising to see the red tape that the political opinion has caused? Absolutely. This is all the fault of the anti-surveillance lobby, and nothing to do with the fact that separate political jurisdictions get to exercise their own autonomous decision making or anything stupid like that.