re: #309 goddamnedfrank

Not that I think there’s anything like TIA in effect or that there’s nearly as much domestic spying going on as Greenwald and Snowden claim, but your if / then doesn’t really take motivation into account either. An overt, obvious, totalitarian police state exerting total control would be very bad for the US economy, so it’s easy to envision hypothetical scenarios where a federal government turns a blind eye to most things that don’t directly threaten national security and stability.

But I think that’s always the case. That is, modern technology, it’s tools, by default, give a hypothetical state of potentially perfect tyranny.