Living with the surveillance state
Living with the surveillance state
Posted Oct 29, 2013 20:23 UTC (Tue) by k8to (guest, #15413)In reply to: Living with the surveillance state by hummassa
Parent article: Living with the surveillance state
Posted Oct 31, 2013 1:58 UTC (Thu)
by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
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But Europeans need to hold their own governments accountable. The British GCHQ is at least as aggressive as the NSA, and other European governments have been cooperating in the world surveillance state much more than they pretend. Those countries who denied airspace to the Bolivian president's plane, and the country that let him land and then violated diplomatic immunity to search him as if he were a criminal suspect have no room to be righteous.
Recent polls show that more Americans regard Snowden as a whistleblower than regard him as a traitor, though there are plenty in the latter category, and it appears that the more the revelations pile up, the more Americans feel that way.
Living with the surveillance state