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Re:Tor users are selected and monitored by the NSA as extrem... by ryanpardieck on Thursday July 03, 2014 @11:14AM (#7983545)
I strongly agree with this. Not only is the "why is anyone surprised" a cynical ploy at seeming "sophisticated," but it serves to make people feel foolish for their initial anger, distrust, fear, sense of betrayal etc. And they have very good reason to feel those things! But we look at them with blank, bored eyes and ask why they're surprised.

I mean, do we really expect anyone else to seriously care about this stuff, when we kind of subtly mock them for having initially cared at all?

"I'm not sure why anyone's surprised" is the nerd version of being too "cool" to ever care about something.

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Re:Tor users are selected and monitored by the NSA as extrem... by canvia on Thursday July 03, 2014 @02:00PM (#7984636)
I haven't met anyone IRL that was not surprised by the extent of the revelations thus far. The prevalence of this "lack of surprise" opinion in online discussions (esp on reddit) seems disproportional to my personal observations, albeit in a rather limited sample size.
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