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I really like the banner, although, in all honesty, I don't think this will have any effect on spying. I truly believe that the NSA cannot be stopped by words a

I really like the banner, although, in all honesty, I don't think this will have any effect on spying. I truly believe that the NSA cannot be stopped by words alone. People lie all the time. The only thing I think words can do in situations like this is drive it more underground, and make the NSA lie that everything is back to normal... Presidents lie. Politicians lie. Now, if every American refuses to work 1 day, and all head to the NSA's office, datacenter (and actually destroy the thing), that'd really mean taking matters into our own hands (extreme scenario, I know). The NSA knew people wouldn't like this, but they did it anyway, because nobody knew. We will never truly have 100% transparency what the NSA is doing. People can no longer trust them. Period.

tripzilch 13y ago
> Now, if every American refuses to work 1 day, and all head to the NSA's office, datacenter (and actually destroy the thing), that'd really mean taking matters into our own hands You forget the part where the USA is a militarized police state that, unlike (say) the Ukrainian government/police will not hesitate to use lethal force at these people. Not that it will happen, but if it were to happen, that's what's going to happen. Remember the police violence excesses with the peaceful Occupy protest? They didn't get friendlier in the mean time. The police did, however, get equipped with more shiny military war toys.