I was here for the discussions on hacker news, and it seemed to me like most people knew basically how it worked. A lot of people on here defending the authorit

I was here for the discussions on hacker news, and it seemed to me like most people knew basically how it worked. A lot of people on here defending the authorities and clutching pearls about “think of the children” telling us we didn't understand and when we presented them with evidence that we did in fact know how it worked they would go radio silent.