Yes. I'm aware the parent comment wants to try to ignore reality and pretend you can nuke the publicly posted information on the internet in the event of a fascist government.
That isn't how the internet or public communication works. The Nazis were able to identify the people they sent to concentration camps because of past associations, even once it became clear what they were doing because people don't live in a vacuum.
By the same token, you aren't going to be able to nuke all your facebook posts, twitter posts, etc. that might obviously flag you as gay "magically" whenever a fascist type government comes to power. The evidence is already there and completely out of your control.
If bad people come to power you are screwed regardless of what the NSA is currently doing. At worst, this shaves a few months off the process.
The most hilarious part of this is, all of you arguing with me about this in a public forum. Do you think you can magically go back and delete all these posts if some truly evil people came to power?
Nope.
I'm amused by the downvotes and arguments because:
1) You've publicly provided information that isn't going to go away already to show which camp you'd end up in if the people arguing with me are right. This information isn't vanishing simply because its posted publicly on the internet. It isn't going to magical become invisible in the future.
2) I've said I agree with the basic premise in my parent comment and basically said it was people who were vulnerable/edge cases that are getting screwed. That is still going to the base regardless of what happens because you only need control of 51% of the electorate to remain in power. The US electorate has shown, consistently, it will believe lies.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09...
"For now, there appears to be little political reason to back down. A Washington Post-ABC News poll taken Sept. 5 to Sept. 7 found that 51 percent of voters think Obama would raise their taxes, even though his plan would actually cut taxes for the overwhelming majority of Americans. Obama has proposed eliminating income taxes on seniors making less than $50,000 a year, but 41 percent of those seniors say their income taxes would go up in an Obama administration."
The ability to fabricate falsehoods and get 51% of people to believe it is a far, far greater threat than the NSA. The fact none of you seem to notice this or even care worries me more than the NSA does. If I can get 51% of people to believe any lie I tell them, I can rule any democracy in the world.