Their is a certain psychological threshold around what will evoke protesting. Abstract concepts like these are hard for average people to grasp or care about re

Their is a certain psychological threshold around what will evoke protesting. Abstract concepts like these are hard for average people to grasp or care about relative to more immediate and direct concepts like "war". Unlike "war" their are no emotionally intense images to accomodate cyber spying. On the flip side I think people probably intuitively accept this is part of the world we live in now. This isn't just the government spying on people, this is people from all walks of life spying on one another as part of 21st century "culture", from marketing to state security. It's like the book 1984.I'm not even sure how the public could hold anyone accountable for any of it within the current assumptions we're living by. You could impeach politicians, but that's not going to do anything. The intelligence community has a blank check and the corporations have the rights of individuals devoid of the social constructs of real-life people. Or more to the point, they're superseded by the survival mechanisms of the collective within a company. Some of those mechanisms are good, some not-so-good. Anyway, I don't have an answer beyond that but felt like typing it.