Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Conspiracy Analysis

Has Edward Snowden told us anything new? To quote:
Seven years ago, during the Bush regime we learned that [the government] "has been collecting information on every phone call made in this country" — Government Monitoring About 200 Million Americans' Calls. Why is anyone surprise by what Edward Snowden has revealed?

From cryptogon.com we learn that his revelations are simply part of a "program, which has been known for years, [that] copies Internet traffic as it enters and leaves the United States, then routes it to the NSA for analysis" — PRISM Is Just Part Of A Much Larger, Scarier Government Surveillance Program. From the same source, we learn of Naomi Wolf's growing suspicions — My creeping concern that the NSA leaker is not who he purports to be ...

This "leak" could be simply a way of prepping the public for an even more dystopian future, since, as my alma mater's Michael S. Rozeff notes, "there is not a rock hard super-majority that is against the surveillance state" — The Machinery of Oppression.
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julygirl said...

From my limited experience with FaceBook and Twitter and reading people's accounts of their boring daily activities, it is hard to imagine anyone having to sift through what is communicated on the internet, or phone for that matter...