>As citizens of democratic countries we have uttely failed to protect our rights against private and public intrusions. We have failed to vote against politicians who introduce legislation to legalise pervasive automated surveilance. In the UK, Theresa May, who brought the Snooper Charter into law became Prime Minister instead of being kicked out of her political career in disgrace.* A majority of citizens of Western democracies continue to use social media and online services like Amazon and Netflix etc.

Compared to whom? We've de-munitionized RSA, we've mostly resisted the "outlaw strong encryption" meme (the U.K. is probably the most obtusely retrograde Western nation when it comes to tech, so I exclude them), we never pulled the "install this government cert to use the Internet" trigger (like Kazakhstan has tried to)... i-it could be worse!

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"Using social media" isn't a privacy-hostile stance like the above are; I'm a cryptonerd, but having my groceries delivered is just. I. Look. We live in a society. Where you don't have to go to the store anymore. It's too good to pass up. I order everything on Amazon through my offshore, Bitcoin-paid VPN, and I would have to be Stallman levels of insane not to. (Screw Netflix though, yeah; just torrent.)