Criticism of surveillance is not any more or less severe than all kinds of other...

		schrijver on Oct 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NSA critics Ilija Trojanov: German writer must not... Criticism of surveillance is not any more or less severe than all kinds of other ‘Non-American behaviour’ of the past, there just happens to be a larger overlap between this instance of ‘Non-American behaviour’ and the HN demographic. How exactly do the parents examples of being a left-wing, gay or anti-apartheid activist seem severe to you?

Also the surveillance state makes it much more obvious who is doing what, and how to block whom.