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>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

• criley2 13y ago
  Again, 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.