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Originally Posted by gpatrick
I for one am so sick of hearing the name Edward Snowden and about the "evil" NSA. It would be more worrisome if the NSA was Russian, Chinese, North Korean, or another oppressive country, but it is the USA. The average person has nothing to fear with metadata they're reportedly collecting, or most of these other alleged activities. People should be worrying more about phishing, malware, worms and other criminal activity that isn't happening due to NSA activities. People will be more harmed by clicking on some email with an embedded image than NSA-collected data.
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This just sounds like a variation on the, "if you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear," argument combined with an exceptionally rosy picture of what kind of country the U.S. is and what its history has been re. oppressing dissidents or various other ethnic or political groups.