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Whatever you think the scale of surveillance is, I assure you it is 100x worse.

North America is rooted. There is no recovery plan.

My understanding is that Abraham Lincoln literally had all the nation's telegraph lines routed through DC during the civil war, and AT&T has been an honorary branch of the US government ever since.

That tradition was carried into the modern era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

I'm aware. And the GP you're responding to's username is echelon. I think they're aware as well.

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