It's been interesting to me to watch everyone get a crash course in the NSA. See the outrage that someone is listening to your phone calls. See the outrage that someone is reading your emails. The horror, the horror.

Are you fucking kidding me.

Google reads your email. That's how they serve up ads. Oh, right - that isn't a human reading it. But it could be. Same with the NSA.

Facebook reads your posts. That's how they serve up ads. Oh, right - that isn't a human being it. But it could be. Same with the NSA.

There's this notion that sending communication across electronic media does not get intercepted by anyone and everyone... or that, if they do, there's some sort of due process. Except we watch Our Heroes do it to The Evil Brown Terrorists all day long, right? Truth, justice and McDonald's?

the FISA court turned down seven warrants in 20 years. "So why doesn't the NSA have to abide by it?" Why do you care? If they rubber-stamp everything anyway, what difference does it make?

The thing that blows my mind is that anyone paying the slightest bit of attention can determine precisely how much surveillance electronic communication is under (hint: total and absolute). The same people who are going "herp derp my liberties" are the ones that are in the absolute best position to know exactly the people who should know this stuff inherently. Why the hell are tech journalists wrist-to-forehead astounded by this shit?

Your government spies on you. Has had since Yeardley Smith. Has never stopped. WILL NEVER STOP. And your blow for freedom is you're going to stop publishing a newsletter?

Grow the fuck up.