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Martin Luther King Jr? Some people are important enough to track individually. One might even imagine that someone here on HN might be important enough, or bec

• billpatrianakos 15y ago
  Yeah. I said that. But is it likely? Who do we think we are that we think we're important enough to be spied on. I really doubt anyone cares what 99% of us are accessing. It's all about analyzing group thinking and behavior. Speaking of group thinking, what's with this knee jerk reaction to stories like this? Everyone automatically gets outraged and they start repeating the same stale lines about the evil government and it's enslavement of us all. Are you outraged because you really believe this threatens you or does it come out because that's the party line and god forbid the karma police downvote you. Here's my point: none of this is either secret or new. I know it's cool to be anti government but WikiLeaks is no better with this sorry excuse for a "leak" and it's hefty helping of spin to further its own agenda. I'm not thrilled to know I'm being watched at all times but I'm also not self indulgent enough to believe that anyone gives a damn about me personally. Enough with the high and mighty talk about standing for freedom. People like to talk but in the end it's all verbal masturbation and in a few minutes we're all going to watch kitties do something cute on YouTube and forget about this whole thing. (Folks over in Europe are a bit more politically active so I must give them credit but here in the states we're a bunch of masturbators who like to talk shit and do nothing for the most part)