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I once had this idea that all these revelations done with the documents given by Snowden could be done on purpose by the government itself in order to make what
by mercora 10y ago
I once had this idea that all these revelations done with the documents given by Snowden could be done on purpose by the government itself in order to make what was previously secretly done common knowledge and thus easier to use later on. There would be a period of time of outrage and maybe some regulation that wasn't there before, but in the end they could do more or less the same thing publicly and everybody would be like "yeah sure, that is what it is like". Not that i believe this is really what happened but it certainly feels like this is where it is going to.
- benevol 10y agoIt does look like that because the result seems to end up being the same. But the theory does not make enough sense in that such a government would want to disclose their mass surveillance program only when absolutely no resistance is possible anymore, which is currently not the case yet.
- mercora 10y agolike i have said i do not believe this is what happened. But like you said it is noteworthy that the result appears to be similar. However, i also think it can be beneficial to disclose such programs in order to make use of the results of such programs in courts easier for example. It might also be easier to finance such programs when they are publicly known.