My Life in Circles: Why Metadata is Incredibly Intimate

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89. You are laughably bad at making these analogies.

First of all, it's the USPS's JOB to look at those envelopes, they can't do their job without that ability, are you truly so incredibly uninformed not to know that? Also, is the USPS allowed to make copies of what's inside those envelopes WITHOUT your permission and then link those copies to the data they find on the outside? No, of course not. Your multiple comparison are so ridiculously stupid that everyone sees it other than you. The government spying on us is NOTHING like our neighbors checking on us and it's even LESS like the USPS reading the addresses on the outside of our envelopes. Those comparisons are insanely daft and worse, to the extent that stupid people actually buy into them, they're dangerous. I've never seen such vociferous defense of a surveillance state and the fact that it's coming from people who are ostensibly liberal is sick. If you're going to defend the attack of our civil liberties, at least don't do it in such an incredibly bone headed fashion.