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We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world.

This should not actually be a complicated inquiry.

https://archive.org/details/EbenMoglen-WhyFreedomOfThoughtRe...

Surveillance is not an end toward totalitarianism, it is totalitarianism itself.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...