The implications of what they've done are incredibly vast and damning. Not to mention, persistent - people now know everything they type on their computer is handed over to the government. That doesn't go away, no matter how much the media might want to ignore the subject.
I'd actually be surprised if they completely get away with it. At least a few people will be in trouble over this whole thing. Lots of civil rights organizations are organizing lawsuits over this as we speak.
“It’s not true, it’s not true, it’s not true, it’s old news.”
If you can delay and delay and delay until the outrage disapates you just might be able to get away with something outrageous.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/opinion/sunday/dowd-when-m...
Please. This is the System. Nobody of any consequence will go to jail, because the System writes its own rules.
That probably sounds a little tin-hatty, but face it, you're counting on the Government to properly regulate the Government, while waving TERR'STS and AL'QAEDA and an American flag. It's not going to happen.
Eventually it will happen, but today is not that day.
>people now know everything they type on their computer is handed over to the government.
And those who are honest with themselves are less free, they moderate their behavior, even perfectly legal behavior. Those who are not honest with themselves will continue as if nothing changed ("the gov't doesn't care about what I do" "they aren't really recording and storing my calls").
I mean i tried asking a group of friends what they thought, to learn they don't know what the fuck PRISM is!
It usually goes. "No one cares about, what the government does, your just weird."
I'm anti social so the only time I hangout with them is when I'm stoned. So I can see why I'm weird to the average teenager, but to not know about the government being caught spying on us, makes it seem like they were never really caught unless your on 4chan or reddit...
Fuck it...