I’m not from the EU, but the thing is, once governments get a taste of the power over it’s citizens that these policies allow, they don’t relinquish it.
Pre 9/11, the US was already egregiously encroaching on the privacy of it’s citizens, see Snowden’s book, blog, et al. Post 9/11 America was reeling from the audacity of some faction with the nerve to attack us on our soil. I mean, we’re usually the ones to do that, funding both sides of an altercation to serve our on interests. $800 billion dollar pentagon budget just to bomb brown people. Call it what it is. Anyways, the people cried out to their government ‘Please save us from those evil terrorists.’ Our government said ‘Sure…it’s going to cost you tho.’ ‘What’s it going to cost us. Taxes are already sky high.’ ‘Well, it’s going to cost you your privacy.’ ‘SHit, I’m not doing anything wrong…what do I have to hide.’ <record scratch - narrator> ‘Everything you dumbass.’
This word ‘hide’ has been embedded into people’s minds and is a testament to the power of propaganda, of which, the American propaganda machine has no equals. When you talk about privacy, security, and anonymity, I can almost guarantee you, the person you are talking to replaces ‘private’ with ‘hide’ in their mind. This notion is what governments prey on.
I’m not from the EU, but the thing is, once governments get a taste of the power over it’s citizens that these policies allow, they don’t relinquish it.
Pre 9/11, the US was already egregiously encroaching on the privacy of it’s citizens, see Snowden’s book, blog, et al. Post 9/11 America was reeling from the audacity of some faction with the nerve to attack us on our soil. I mean, we’re usually the ones to do that, funding both sides of an altercation to serve our on interests. $800 billion dollar pentagon budget just to bomb brown people. Call it what it is. Anyways, the people cried out to their government ‘Please save us from those evil terrorists.’ Our government said ‘Sure…it’s going to cost you tho.’ ‘What’s it going to cost us. Taxes are already sky high.’ ‘Well, it’s going to cost you your privacy.’ ‘SHit, I’m not doing anything wrong…what do I have to hide.’ <record scratch - narrator> ‘Everything you dumbass.’
This word ‘hide’ has been embedded into people’s minds and is a testament to the power of propaganda, of which, the American propaganda machine has no equals. When you talk about privacy, security, and anonymity, I can almost guarantee you, the person you are talking to replaces ‘private’ with ‘hide’ in their mind. This notion is what governments prey on.