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The point is not that the TSA wants to or even ever will use your reading material against you in some way. The point is the slow and steady erosion of privacy
by RhodesianHunter 9y ago
The point is not that the TSA wants to or even ever will use your reading material against you in some way.
The point is the slow and steady erosion of privacy rights one tiny inch at a time.
In the far future when a government DOES decide to use these things against its people, they will have no defense against it because the practice has become a long accepted fact of life.
- iamnothere 9y agoI do agree with the ACLU's mission and with the notion that privacy rights are being eroded. At the same time, I personally feel that this kind of polemic is becoming so common that its usage risks numbing us to the biggest risks. (If everything is an emergency, then nothing is.) Criticism is possible without relying on cheap speculation and exaggeration.