I wonder how many Americans are afraid to speak out for the same reason. I guarantee every one of those 110,000 people who signed that petition are now being closely watched.
I am confident in at least that much.
Sign the petition, use the voice you have. I did.
If you're censoring your feelings out of concern for the security apparatus, you are really missing the point. This is not Mao's hundred flowers campaign, and it is your job as a citizen to make sure it never gets there.
The only way to stop this leviathan is to change minds. If you thought SOPA was a dark day for the internet, surely this sucking up of network metadata and content data strikes at the heart of end to end communication.
I wonder if we need to start over on the privacy-protected internet, just to make sure this can never happen again.
My inclination is that this is mostly a paranoid fantasy on your part, rather than anything resembling reality.
In any event, how can you "guarantee" it?
Really? You believe that signing a petition could get your name onto a 'no-fly list or any other such secret lists of "terrorists".' and you haven't fled the country? Isn't that outrageous?
>I guarantee every one of those 110,000 people who signed that petition are now being closely watched.
This is nuts. If there is such a list, I'd be ashamed to be left out.
If the list is based solely on petition signing, it would probably be titled "Mostly Harmless Complainers"
You mean to say they (we) weren't before?
What would help at this point is for additional conscientious government employees and contractors to follow Snowden's example. ("If you see something, say something.") It would be easier for me to get behind a mass resistance movement than a single guy who, frankly, has said and done some things that don't suggest a high degree of mental stability.
Not that I expect that it's actually going to happen, but it's not beyond the realm of their capability.