It sucks that I see news like this all the time and realize that my own government has probably known about and participated in these activities, yet I'm findin

It sucks that I see news like this all the time and realize that my own government has probably known about and participated in these activities, yet I'm finding it out through corporate media/organization that have probably known for a while and still know things that they're not telling us. I've pretty much given up all hope in the US government (or just about any government) to fix its self without some sort of major upheaval. The digital age came too fast for our politics to keep up and now the age of automation is soon to sweep through, along with a lot of other major advancements when it comes to interacting with digitized goods and services. Whoever controls the main communications vector in the future will be controlling reality, and no one is planning for it. I believe the transition from the reality we know today to a reality based around augmentation is going to happen extremely swiftly and there wont be time to make fair laws (and figure out what laws we need to make), and the laws that are made will be many, and they'll be hard for the average user to understand, and they'll be authored by legal representatives hired by corporate institutions. What we really need is a digital bill of rights written by and for the people, and rather than corporations and web sites shoving their TOS down our throats, they should be adhering to our TOS. It's unfortunate.