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> Where is the outrage? Seems to me that most people either believe that their government is the good guy and always will be or they are comfortable enough in
by Taek 10y ago
> Where is the outrage?
Seems to me that most people either believe that their government is the good guy and always will be or they are comfortable enough in their lives and current security that they don't feel motivated to make a fuss.
- ptero 10y agoI think a large enough fraction of people are more scared of the external threats that the privacy invasions supposedly help fighting than of the loss of privacy itself. A few events might change that (e.g., a large enough financial failure using the lost/leaked data originally collected by government). I hope the pendulum swings back sometime, but I'm afraid it is going to take a while (10+ years).
- robert_foss 10y agoHypernormalization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation#Etymology