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At what point did the world adopt the standard that all private communication is government business ?
by Lordarminius 7y ago
At what point did the world adopt the standard that all private communication is government business ?
- rocgf 7y agoAs a lot of other things, it happened step by step, with the main catalyst being 9/11. We somehow accepted that it's an acceptable trade-off to have no privacy in the name of stopping "the terrorists". "You're either with us, or a terrorist" Bush once said. And now we're at a stage where it's acceptable to say things like "if you've got nothing to hide, why are you so worried about this stuff?".