I've been among the biggest screamers about the NSA and other atrocities against privacy, but the author is exactly right. Those who call for putting the intern

I've been among the biggest screamers about the NSA and other atrocities against privacy, but the author is exactly right. Those who call for putting the internet under some kind of control by the UN or other world organizations are either purposely misleading people or direly uninformed. We have a technology problem. The technology we built was made (on purpose) by us to track people like lab rats in an elaborate zoo. This capability exists completely outside of where your server is, where your data resides, or any of that. It's a feature of modern life. It's this feature of modern life that is the problem. All Snowden did was show that some Americans aren't going to sit idly by while their government screws over the world. Defunding the NSA or moving your stuff to an offshore cloud, or making it illegal for the U.S. government to track you? That's going to do exactly nothing in the way of protecting your privacy and anonymity. So yes, let's rise up and take action. But by all means, we should know what the hell we're talking about. If you want to really see draconian state surveillance, let each individual country have it's way with the citizens. What we've seen so far is a cakewalk compared to that possible future.