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Interesting thought. However, the dreaded outcome is at the bottom of a slippery slope rather than in a giant ball of flame. Mutually Assured Destruction doesn'

• reneherse 13y ago
  Indeed, mutually assured destruction was the motivating force for nation states to Not Go There with nukes. Here, however, the motivation for governments to eschew mass surveillance must come from a vocal populace and web-business interests. If "we the people" don't speak out against this, both on a grassroots and lobbying level, there is no motivation for our governments to abstain. States love to spy on one another; it gives justification for their budgets. Only individual citizens, businesses, and other free thinking organizations have anything to lose.