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ancianita

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4. No. None of this surveillance capability ever existed. We're in the reality of the 21st

Reply to SoCalNative (Reply #3)

Tue Feb 4, 2020, 12:45 PM

Feb 2020

Century and have no prior experience with anything but reality-based fictions.

Homeland is international spying. It involved Russia, not Germany, and how our FBI only had an inkling but never a clue about it.

Our situation is about domestic allies allowing foreign spies to help them control their populations' free speech and thought.

Orwell is about our present situation.

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Warning from Electronic Frontier Foundation: the formation of a global surveillance police state. [View all] ancianita Feb 2020 OP

It was only a matter of time. defacto7 Feb 2020 #1

Oh here we go with the politics of inevitability. Was it? Really? You can say that about ancianita Feb 2020 #2

No, if you want to make it such a broad brush. I didn't. defacto7 Feb 2020 #5

You left me no choice. You could have said why to begin with, then I wouldn't have had ancianita Feb 2020 #6

I appreciate your answer. 'Read it twice. defacto7 Feb 2020 #7

Wasn't this a season of Homeland? SoCalNative Feb 2020 #3

No. None of this surveillance capability ever existed. We're in the reality of the 21st ancianita Feb 2020 #4