>I've never met the people who want these clownish surveillance things but they keep coming up anyways. They're you, your neighbors, your coworkers, your famil

>I've never met the people who want these clownish surveillance things but they keep coming up anyways. They're you, your neighbors, your coworkers, your family. Authoritarians are everywhere. They won't outright support the surveillance state but they'll say things like "well, government gonna government amirite" when these dragnets get used against people they don't like (usually various breeds of petty criminals and scofflaws who aren't really harming anyone at their scale). And of course they act all outraged when the .gov is using the same mechanisms to go after stuff they do like. If cognitive dissonance was a physical object I would bludgeon people with it.