Criticism of surveillance is not any more or less severe than all kinds of other...

schrijver on Oct 1, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: NSA critics Ilija Trojanov: German writer must not...

Criticism of surveillance is not any more or less severe than all kinds of other ‘Non-American behaviour’ of the past, there just happens to be a larger overlap between this instance of ‘Non-American behaviour’ and the HN demographic.

How exactly do the parents examples of being a left-wing, gay or anti-apartheid activist seem severe to you?

hobs on Oct 1, 2013 [–]

Also the surveillance state makes it much more obvious who is doing what, and how to block whom.