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I thought that has been a given for a very long time- at the very least since 9/11.

• brippalcharrid 6y ago
  The idea of pervasive monitoring and dragnet surveillance was very much an implausible tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory in the minds of the general public until the Snowden revelations came out. Everyone knew that we were surveilling terrorists, particularly since 9/11, but they weren't aware that the NSA/GCHQ were doing things like compromising major communications platforms of domestic companies and exfiltrating and storing data indiscriminately in case it became useful in the future.
  • sudosysgen 6y ago
    I had teachers tell me that I was saying paranoid conspiracy theories when I talked about it way back before Snowden :)