Comment on The Age of Mass Surveillance Will Not Last ForeverparentComments−mac010216yAre you saying that citizens with a mind to criticize an administration/senator/whatever are regularly blackmailed into refraining from doing that?−mixmastamyk6yBlackmailed? No need. Retaliated against, punished, neutralized, ruined, stalked? Often.- https://whistleblowersofamerica.org/2019/04/01/what-is-whist...- https://whistleblower.org/timeline-us-whistleblowers/- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kxzq/dmvs-selling-data-...- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danielwagner/she-told-t...- https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-us-government-employee...Think you're safe at home?- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_RidgeThink it is new?- https://theconversation.com/j-edgar-hoovers-revenge-informat...−feanaro6yI'm not the commenter you asked, but I'm saying we don't know, we cannot easily know and we shouldn't bring ourselves into a position where we even have to ask.
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Are you saying that citizens with a mind to criticize an administration/senator/whatever are regularly blackmailed into refraining from doing that?
Blackmailed? No need. Retaliated against, punished, neutralized, ruined, stalked? Often.
- https://whistleblowersofamerica.org/2019/04/01/what-is-whist...
- https://whistleblower.org/timeline-us-whistleblowers/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kxzq/dmvs-selling-data-...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT
- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danielwagner/she-told-t...
- https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-us-government-employee...
Think you're safe at home?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge
Think it is new?
- https://theconversation.com/j-edgar-hoovers-revenge-informat...
I'm not the commenter you asked, but I'm saying we don't know, we cannot easily know and we shouldn't bring ourselves into a position where we even have to ask.