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Sweet patches with a gigantic octopus devouring the Earth "Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach" "Full Spectrum Dominance" "Total Information Awareness" "Five Eyes"
by chishaku 11y ago
Sweet patches with a gigantic octopus devouring the Earth
"Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach"
"Full Spectrum Dominance"
"Total Information Awareness"
"Five Eyes"
This is the culture of a whole generation of career bureaucrats. I'm afraid even major legislative victories for privacy will struggle to change the culture.
- jrcii 11y agoThere have been generations in the west who freely and easily enjoyed rights like privacy and freedom of speech by inheriting the fruits of their predecessors' hard-fought battles. The next generation will not be among them.
- schoen 11y agoI suspect it was already like this in the Cold War but the public heard much less about it. The flip side of this is the bureaucratic jargon that uses relatively neutral, even innocuous terms for spying on people, imprisoning them, or killing them.
- hanoz 11y agoHank... are we the baddies?