It brings me low to see polls showing that the majority of my fellow citizens approve of NSA’s gill-net attack on our liberties. Cory Doctorow quotes William Gibson about how that is, and I think Gibson’s right again:
I keep seeing that in the lower discourse of the Internet, people saying, "Oh, they’re doing it anyway." In some way our culture believes that, and it’s a real problem, because evidently they haven’t been doing it anyway, and now that they’ve started, we really need to pay attention and muster some kind of viable political response.
Unlike the rest of us, Gibson’s been there and written travel books about it.
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