I think it's becoming very clear now:
Either the NSA/government goes or technology goes.
If we want to attain a sane degree of democracy in our Western world, both can not continue to coexist in their current form.
Either the NSA/government goes or technology goes.
If we want to attain a sane degree of democracy in our Western world, both can not continue to coexist in their current form.
The only way to get rid of the NSA is to get rid of the threats. The most effective long term way is to work for and achieve a much higher level of peace, tolerance and community than the world currently has.
Sure you can. The existence of real threats does not mean that the NSA is the only means of dealing with them, nor even that it is an effective way of dealing with them even before considering the negative impacts it has, nor, finally -- and this is the key consideration -- that it is a net positive considering the benefits it provides against the threats against the direct threat it produces to freedom.