> Most people aren't even aware the Government is doing this, or at best they think it's just a silly conspiracy theory they've heard from their friends, but don't really believe it.
Actually, when I've told people about this, they just shrugged it off. The fact of the matter is, the vast majority of people just don't care about these sorts of things, or think that it's OK for the government to do it.
Given the choice between keeping their anonymity and farmvilling with friends, most people will choose the latter. Especially since most people believe "Obscurity" to still be a valid security technique.
Even worse is the argument that it's OK for the government to spy on people because they personally "have nothing to hide". I hear this argument with astonishing regularity from otherwise highly educated individuals.
People forget McCarthyism; I am fine if this administration has access to my cell phone records, but I would not be fine if the red scare happened again. It is hard to take away power from government once it is considered "settled law".
I am not old enough to state this with confidence, but I strongly suspect that a large minority, if not the majority, of people were in favour of McCarthyism in order to root out those awful communists. People are surprisingly unimaginative and just don't see how it could be turned on them.
>Given the choice between keeping their anonymity and farmvilling with friends, most people will choose the latter.
And most people WONT have a problem caused by choosing the latter.
It's the few people, people who probably wouldn't chose it in the first place, that would get affected.
People like the future Martin Luther Kings and Malcom Xs, Joe Hill, Jimmy Hoffa, victims of the McCarthy persecution, the EFF, whistleblowers, anti-war protesters, OWS, etc etc.
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> Most people aren't even aware the Government is doing this, or at best they think it's just a silly conspiracy theory they've heard from their friends, but don't really believe it.
Actually, when I've told people about this, they just shrugged it off. The fact of the matter is, the vast majority of people just don't care about these sorts of things, or think that it's OK for the government to do it.
Given the choice between keeping their anonymity and farmvilling with friends, most people will choose the latter. Especially since most people believe "Obscurity" to still be a valid security technique.
Even worse is the argument that it's OK for the government to spy on people because they personally "have nothing to hide". I hear this argument with astonishing regularity from otherwise highly educated individuals.
People forget McCarthyism; I am fine if this administration has access to my cell phone records, but I would not be fine if the red scare happened again. It is hard to take away power from government once it is considered "settled law".
I am not old enough to state this with confidence, but I strongly suspect that a large minority, if not the majority, of people were in favour of McCarthyism in order to root out those awful communists. People are surprisingly unimaginative and just don't see how it could be turned on them.
>Given the choice between keeping their anonymity and farmvilling with friends, most people will choose the latter.
And most people WONT have a problem caused by choosing the latter.
It's the few people, people who probably wouldn't chose it in the first place, that would get affected.
People like the future Martin Luther Kings and Malcom Xs, Joe Hill, Jimmy Hoffa, victims of the McCarthy persecution, the EFF, whistleblowers, anti-war protesters, OWS, etc etc.