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Re:Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take on Company by notriddle on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:52PM (#18079091)
More specifically, the political pundits latched onto a thing that has been around for over a decade. Tor has been around since 2006, and mixmaster is even older than that.

The anti-adtech privacy movement is not new, but the interest coming from mainstream political talking heads is.

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Re:Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take on Company by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:00PM (#18079176)
The difference is that after the Russian interference thing, politicians realized all of this Internet stuff they didn't understand can cost them re-election.
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Re:Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take on Company by kodablah on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:31PM (#18079437)
> realized

Or, in a continued fit of misunderstanding, they came to that assumption and are shaping their narrative/attacks around it.

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