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I think there is a point at which mindlessly yelling "WHAT ABOUT THE NSA" at, well, basically everything stops being useful, because it offers no insight whatso
by ubernostrum 13y ago
I think there is a point at which mindlessly yelling "WHAT ABOUT THE NSA" at, well, basically everything stops being useful, because it offers no insight whatsoever, and provokes no thoughts that hadn't already been provoked. In fact, past a certain point it becomes counterproductive, as it enters "Old Man Yells At Cloud" territory and opens up the commenter, and by connection the content of the comment, as a subject of ridicule.
Also, you've still not proven to me that you don't work for the NSA.
- tedks 13y agoWell, the insight I was going for here is that a walled garden is only as safe as the gardener, and whatever trust we as humans could have in that gardener should be totally shattered in the post-NSA leak world. If you think that isn't a legitimate insight, or if you're so blazing-fast that you'd already made that inference, I suppose you're entitled to think that, but it's very difficult for most humans to re-compute all of their cached thoughts in the light of new information, and the NSA leaks aren't any different.