Re:To find suspects, police quietly turn to Google
by megy on Sunday March 18, 2018 @06:21PM
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> Every time this happens,
I love these comments, you seem them all the time (Everytime this happens if you will). And they are phrased as though they are above questioning.
Re:To find suspects, police quietly turn to Google
by thinkingemote on Sunday March 18, 2018 @05:26PM
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I think both reactions are for psychological comfort. It is that it's comforting if someone else is in charge, in control in the face of chaos, and it's comforting to place trust in those above you and thus happily mock conspiracy theories.
The NSA’s surveillance dragnet is a very different situation because they are a government agency, but you could see the same exact phenomenon happened when the Snowden revelations came out.
“Do you really think the government cares enough to log all your phone calls? You must be paranoid.” became “Well, obviously the government does this. How could you not expect this?” in the blink of an eye.