For David Brin to suggest this notion of us being able to spy back on then leaves two possibilities for my mind about him:
1. He's not living in the real world. There's no way those in power are going to let us spy on them. Has he and have you not been watching the removals of government oversight recently? A judge (Bush appointee) told the GAO to take a hike when they asked for info and said the GAO could only sue the executive branch for information in a civil suit. That's absolutely unprecedented.
2. He's an apologist that likes to create a nice idea to disguise the fact that he's really for the government watching over all of us.
The whole idea is better than governmetn spying on us unilaterally, but it's still not something that I'm very excited about. There are somethings that I would like to keep private, not because they're illegal, just because I want them to be.
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For David Brin to suggest this notion of us being able to spy back on then leaves two possibilities for my mind about him: 1. He's not living in the real world. There's no way those in power are going to let us spy on them. Has he and have you not been watching the removals of government oversight recently? A judge (Bush appointee) told the GAO to take a hike when they asked for info and said the GAO could only sue the executive branch for information in a civil suit. That's absolutely unprecedented. 2. He's an apologist that likes to create a nice idea to disguise the fact that he's really for the government watching over all of us. The whole idea is better than governmetn spying on us unilaterally, but it's still not something that I'm very excited about. There are somethings that I would like to keep private, not because they're illegal, just because I want them to be.