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Re:Tech companies, bristling, concede to government surveill... by tolmasky on Saturday June 08, 2013 @12:25AM (#5843791)
And if you don't believe this or think its hyperbole, just remember that it's precisely why the 13th amendment contains the phrase "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted"
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Re:Tech companies, bristling, concede to government surveill... by einhverfr on Saturday June 08, 2013 @12:54AM (#5843863)
Also note that for a segment of the population, that is the safety net too, just as Hilaire Belloc predicted in "The Servile State" (which he wrote in 1914).
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