“Ultimately, arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
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“And for her eyes: what could such eyes do there But weep, and weep, that they were born so fair?”
― Keats: Poems Published in 1820
― Keats: Poems Published in 1820
“These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.”
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“The freedom of a country can only be measured by its respect for the rights of its citizens, and it’s my conviction that these rights are in fact limitations of state power that define exactly where and when a government may not infringe into that domain of personal or individual freedoms that during the American Revolution was called “liberty” and during the Internet Revolution is called “privacy.”
― Permanent Record
― Permanent Record
“George W. Bush, on the dais, supplied what seemed likely to become the historic footnote to the Trump address: “That’s some weird shit.”
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
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