Whether you are in the UK or the USA, your freedoms are being degraded even outside the media-consumption sphere. Until GCHQ and NSA are properly reigned in, n

Whether you are in the UK or the USA, your freedoms are being degraded even outside the media-consumption sphere. Until GCHQ and NSA are properly reigned in, nobody is getting their human rights back. With the base expectations for the abrogation of human rights being set at global scale by these heinous organizations, which subvert our democracies and corrupt them, there can be no expectation that the broader sphere of local human rights will ever recover from the damage caused. We cannot fight for a free and open society, when that free and open society is being used to abrogate literally billions of human beings rights outside of our own state borders. The issue will never leave the commons for as long as the military industrial complex is allowed to violate human rights at immensely despicable scales. The protection many claim are being provided, is a fallacy - the net effect of GCHQ/NSA control over our information and communications systems is, a deleterious effect on our ability to protect our rights at an individual level. A government which promotes this abrogation of human rights at massive scale is never going to be brought to heel over those same rights being returned, locally - whether British, American, Canadian, Australian or Kiwi...