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Re:Tech companies, bristling, concede to government surveill... by grandalf on Saturday June 08, 2013 @12:03AM (#5843740)
Fair point. However the public actually dissented due to Vietnam, which indicates that the propaganda effort was unsuccessful. In today's world, consent has been effectively manufactured.
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Re:Tech companies, bristling, concede to government surveill... by tptacek on Saturday June 08, 2013 @12:05AM (#5843746)
Twas. Ever. Thus. They protested Vietnam, and sometimes the National Guard mowed them down with assault rifles.

The notion that protesters ended the Vietnam war is also ahistorical, a fiction designed to flatter the boomers.

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Re:Tech companies, bristling, concede to government surveill... by grandalf on Saturday June 08, 2013 @12:09AM (#5843758)
FWIW I don't foresee any significant protest or dissent over the surveillance state.
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Re:Tech companies, bristling, concede to government surveill... by tptacek on Saturday June 08, 2013 @12:15AM (#5843768)
All three branches of government appear to have overwhelmingly agreed on the new monitoring schemes. We're walking west by northwest; not south. I agree, though, we need to turn northward.
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