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lil  ·  4300 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Google National Security Letter requests

Google's openness seems to contradict the notion that the recipient of the letter can never disclose the existence of the letter. That phrase in the definition from Wikipedia reminded me of the near future presented in the book: Super Sad True Love Story (Gary Shteyngart). The USA is run by a dictatorship known as The Bipartisan Party.

    Most chilling are the checkpoints and other security measures erected everywhere by a state obsessed with protection from terrorism, which of course becomes its own form of terrorism, right down to the bulletins warning citizens of the danger du jour and ending with the boilerplate statement “By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent.”