Eroding and not being applied properly. What was that stuff snowden revealed about the NSA and their capabilities again? Now consider how much time has passed s

Eroding and not being applied properly. What was that stuff snowden revealed about the NSA and their capabilities again? Now consider how much time has passed since then and how much they could have refined their tools and methods over time. And remember how nobody gave a fuck who wasn't exactly involved with tech or human rights. Sure, it's "just" the secret service(s) able to access that data, but is our solution really always just pointing at some other country and saying "well look this is even worse so I guess we're doing fine". Also, every time some shit the govt or some agency was pulling gets uncovered, large scale end-of-history syndrome sets in and people assume that now that this has been revealed, everything is fine for good. I'd like to argue that this even leads to us caring less about it than we should. In the west we are so convinced that our political systems are far superior, so that our governments can't do any evil, and if theyd try, someone would take care of stopping them. Only that I have my doubts about that really happening. The favorite way Americans like to do this is playing the "freedom of speech" card, but I guess other countries have equivalents.