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I find it a little ironic when people talk about how rare and possibly over-stated the terrorism threat is and then go on to freak out over the NSA snooping wit
by jack-r-abbit 13y ago
I find it a little ironic when people talk about how rare and possibly over-stated the terrorism threat is and then go on to freak out over the NSA snooping with a bunch of "what if" arguments ("what if they do [this|that|the_other_thing] with my data?") that are likely to be just as rare and over-stated.
Even if it doesn't really concern me too much, I can respect your concern over it. But if you turn the NSA snooping into some doomsday thing, I won't really listen to you for very long.
- TallGuyShort 13y agoI think the concerning thing for me is trends. I don't think that, all other things being equal, acts of terrorism increase in frequency just by their nature. An intelligence agency, on the other hand, is going to seek for more and more power as long as it is unchecked. What scares me about the NSA is now what they're doing now, but the direction they're clearly headed in.