>Skip the middleman (private companies vacuuming up all the data and selling to govt). Why skip it? Keep it and enlarge it. Then you get to have your cake (tot

>Skip the middleman (private companies vacuuming up all the data and selling to govt). Why skip it? Keep it and enlarge it. Then you get to have your cake (total surveilance) and eat it too (it's not the government doing it! we're just buying those private sector data). Same way you can censor as a government and still be all about "free speech"! You just let the private sector do the censoring - with a little carrot and stick encouragement from you, they know what they have to do and will even jump at the chance without you having to explicitly ask them.