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Re:Patriot Act author warns EU against dragnet response to t... by RobertoG on Friday December 04, 2015 @12:39PM (#10677719)
"Similar organizations have existed for hundreds of years"

So have done the internal source of erosion, is just they now have the technological capacities. In absence of a strong social movement against, this doesn't look well for the future.

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Re:Patriot Act author warns EU against dragnet response to t... by sandworm101 on Friday December 04, 2015 @12:47PM (#10677788)
Take a look at britain in the 50s, or the US in the 60s. Speech was more heavily stymied then than it is today. It cost more to do so, but governments then still tracked people's activity. If anything, today's technology allows us to recognize and react to such behaviour whereas previous generations remained unaware.
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