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These guys just don't get it. They're always saying the same thing "we don't want to look at it."

I want to scream "well maybe someday you will, and then you'll have it collected already."

What a dense mind, and I am not all inclined to insult people in fact I hate it, but in this case it is well deserved.

They've also been saying "and we're not allowed to look at it without a court order, either." The laws and authorities that allow them to conduct their activities were all written by elected representatives. You can say the NSA might someday want to look at it, but it's kind of equivalent to asking what the point of having a constitution and laws is if they might changed sometime in the future.

Do they study history? At all??

I'm honestly gobsmacked by this blogpost... that anyone in a democracy thinks that hovering up all the data, will be safe from repercussions down the line, regardless of leadership.

Head-spinningly-shortsightedly-naivé.

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