Monday, 19 August 2013

Quote of the Day: Free Speech vs the #Surveillance State … ?

“… freedom of speech is the key issue in protecting a free society. Once we cannot communicate
freely, the game is up. Since the Internet is near to being transformed from a mechanism of
freedom into the ultimate weapon for control, a turn-key totalitarian state is almost available…”

- historian Scott Powell, “Taking a DIM View of the World — And Why Everything Depends On It

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