Obama has used the tools of the surveillance state judiciously, which makes the situation much worse, because it masks their full power
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Replying to @Pinboard
not trying to pick a fight here, but how can the use of a surveillance state be judicious?
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Replying to @false1001
I mean if you compare the things he could do, with the things he did do, it was very sparingly used. Similar with the drone war
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Replying to @Pinboard
isn't that the sort of slippery slope that results in situations like this? Surveillance is wrong no matter who controls it
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Replying to @false1001
I agree with you wholeheartedly. What I’m addressing is reasons why more people didn’t object to its unprecedented expansion
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Replying to @Pinboard
okay I gotchya, social media has some
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Replying to @Pinboard
just think of it as running acceptance tests for totalitarianism in production
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