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History bias. If you're a boomer, then you were alive during the Cold War and the red scare, periods where surveillance and crimes of "words" were arguably as b
by criley2 13y ago
History bias. If you're a boomer, then you were alive during the Cold War and the red scare, periods where surveillance and crimes of "words" were arguably as bad or worse.
If not before that, then you're greatest generation, and you're obviously not Japanese because you would be singing a very different tune about American civil liberties and being charged for "crimes" had you lived through internment.
These examples go back as long as there is civilization...
I don't buy your "things used to be better" nostalgia. Everything looks better decades later, but it doesn't make it true...
- SagelyGuru 13y ago>I don't buy your "things used to be better" nostalgia. Everything looks better decades later, but it doesn't make it true... Of course things were better. The "laws" under which this boy is being hounded did not exist. Plus many other similar new laws.
- criley2 13y agoAgain, your mypoia to history does not make today worse. Widespread, blatant, unmonitored wiretapping has occurred in our history many times. Whether during the Cold War, or before, in the earlier days of telephony when checks and balances were quite literally impossible, the government has absolutely taken full advantage of the prevailing technology without respect to Constitutional rights. You can argue that the technology makes the scale worse, but the same people are making the same decisions they always have.