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I bet the NSA is going to love the inbound referrals from "Hacker News".
by sethbannon 13y ago
I bet the NSA is going to love the inbound referrals from "Hacker News".
- eli 13y agoI'm quite certain at least a few NSA members are regular readers. The NSA is not an evil monolith.
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- lsiebert 13y agoI don't think that most people who think about it believe that the NSA is evil. But what it is doing for ostensibly good reasons are actions that can be labeled as evil. But the truth is, it does those activities because the White House says it should, and Congress is ok with it. The NSA will never not obey politicians. You want change, write to your Congressional representatives. Write to the major party Committees, and tell them that you will only support and donate to candidates that explicitly seek to change the surveillance of Americans. Find your local party headquarters and your convention delegates, and have respect for privacy added to the party platform. Protesting the NSA is good because it organizes people, but then they need to be targeted where they will have an effect. But any real change will come from the political process. The NSA doesn't object. The NSA also isn't going to change anything because of the protests.