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user-inactivated  ·  3622 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How Paranoid Should You Be?

I don't think it's as hard as she makes it sound to recognize what's paranoid but likely true and paranoid and likely nonsense. Everyone who knew anything about security thought something like Prism existed; the same was true of Carnivore and Echelon. Meanwhile, people who know things about medicine are confident vaccines are your friend and mine. The FBI really does con people into doing things it can arrest them for, but they're hardly diabolical masterminds; they don't have to be, heavy-handed works just fine. There are ambiguous cases, but for the most part it's not that hard to tell who has a point and who's been listening to Alex Jones.