Re:We Only Have Hours Left to Stop the NSA Expansion Bill
by whatshisface on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @11:15AM
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Maybe we'll end up with a new political subculture that derives pride and some sense of personal identity from fighting this stuff; just like gun people almost enjoy supporting the NRA. (In some way I think computer rights would be a lot more fun to support if a large fraction of the public was against it, then we would have the satisfaction of arguing.)
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Re:We Only Have Hours Left to Stop the NSA Expansion Bill
by spenczar5 on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @12:44PM
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I think that already exists. The political subculture is "privacy nut" computer nerds who wear EFF shirts. There just aren't that many of them.
Re:We Only Have Hours Left to Stop the NSA Expansion Bill
by snerbles on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @12:13PM
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To be fair, a large fraction of the public does subscribe to the notion of "I have nothing to hide, so mass surveillance is OK".
Re:We Only Have Hours Left to Stop the NSA Expansion Bill
by eigenstuff on Thursday December 21, 2017 @11:21AM
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A large fraction of the gun community actually HATES the NRA for exactly the same reasons everybody else does. There's just no highly visible organizations for gun owners that, y'know, promote reasonable gun control and don't try and whip their members into wannabe race war frenzies.
Source: sitting in the gunsmith shop I work in right now