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So nsa surveillance is unacceptable and must be fought but corporate surveillance is ok and should be accepted and used as a tool against nsa surveillance ? sad

• vdaniuk 13y ago
  Exactly, your comment is a sad joke. It is a personal choice to be monitored by Google,Facebook and other services that an individual uses. On the other hand, that individual has zero choice in whether his or her activities will be monitored by shady government agencies.
  • mattgreenrocks 13y ago
    Your tone is unnecessarily abrasive. Parent has a legitimate point: we defend the right to be spied on by corporations when it was that data that made this whole thing much easier to set up in the first place. For all the malicious intent assumed of government, we forget that private companies often have no such oversight rules set up for their clusters of data. And we do all this because we believe that freemium is a necessary evil.
    • vdaniuk 13y ago
      My tone is a reflection of parents tone, no more, no less. I've even used the same phrase. I won't argue with you as I think our axioms differ: I consider freemium necessary good, not evil and I don't think that anyone forgets about lack of private enterprise oversight and nearly no one defends the right to be spied by corporations.