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[–] who@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You might be surprised how many informed geeks will defend mass surveillance until their last breath, if it's built with or adjacent to a technology that they feel connected to in some way.

I think most of them mean well, but unrealistic idealism and naïveté are definitely in play.