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As a geek I spend every waking moment believeing that a stream of 1s and 0s can have real world significance. Those bits have real meaning that should be respected. You cannot just ignore basic ethics and law on the basis of how the information happens to be transferred from one brain to another. Surely we should want everyone to understand this in order to get some protections from government spying.

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A bit OT, however, I think it's worth pointing out:

->order to get some protections from government spying.

I suspect the governments who actively make their own citizens vulnerable to spying by other governments probably won't be around that much longer. The kind of incompetence and arrogance that comes with making your citizenship vulnerable to foreign influence to protect the status quo in the name of "national security" has never ever ended well for the status quo.

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