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		abdullahkhalids on June 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Noam Chomsky: A Surveillance State Beyond Imaginat... 1. The point is not that they can. The point is that they believe they can. 2. Historically, there was always a place to hide to carry out nefarious activities. In the digital surveillance state, that space is shrinking. (Modern humans 200K years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens)

monochr on June 9, 2014 [–]

>The point is that they believe they can.

They are welcome to believing that, just as the Catholic Church is welcome to thinking I'm going to burn in hell for all eternity for not believing their god.

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