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The real story is in the caption:
- Fry also spoke at a day of action in Shoreditch, east London, on Friday - billed as the biggest privacy event of 2014, with more than 500 people attending. Other speakers included Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian editor-in-chief
The "biggest privacy event" has 500 people? That's sad.
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Have any of you ever felt the results of being stared down by a person that could easily hurt you? It is an anxiety response to the predator/prey nature of our existence. Surveillance recreates that generalized anxiety response among entire populations. Nation/states use that to squelch sedition before the fact just as much as the collection of the actions and words of those surveilled is later used to railroad any dissent. If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. -(mis)attributed to Cardinal Richelieu