Also what’s the likelihood of the NSA blocking your flight or making you disappear in the night? You probably should fear crossing the street more in terms of statistical likelihood of harm.
I get the privacy/freedom arguments however the hyperbole around this stuff is getting ridiculous as the fears are badly supported by actual data and statistical significance.
More people drowned in swimming pools last year than were “disappeared” by the NSA but there seems little hysteria around swimming pools. I pretty sure most of us don’t know a single person on a no-fly list.
Some high levels of paranoia around here it seems.
Yes, they did. Probably just tobacco companies alone.
> It takes a government to do that.
Since corporations are creatures of government, that's true by definition of everything corporations do.
A response as silly as it was predictable. Show me a Gulag Archipelago written about the tobacco industry and we'll have some grounds for further discussion.
Since corporations are creatures of government, that's true by definition of everything corporations do.
Ditto.
So if no one writes world class literature about your crimes, they didn't happen?
That works well enough on HN, as seen in the moderation in this thread, but not in real life.