A Prime Aim Of The Growing Surveillance State
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Prime Aim Of The Growing Surveillance State
This is the
point I emphasize whenever I talk about why topics
such as the sprawling Surveillance State and the
attempted criminalization of WikiLeaks and
whistleblowing are so vital. The free flow of
information and communications enabled by new
technologies -- as protest movements in the Middle
East and a wave of serious leaks over the last year
have demonstrated -- is a uniquely potent weapon in
challenging entrenched government power and other
powerful factions. And that is precisely why those in
power -- those devoted to preservation of the
prevailing social order -- are so increasingly fixated
on seizing control of it and snuffing out its
potential for subverting that order: they are well
aware of, and are petrified by, its power, and want to
ensure that the ability to dictate how it is used, and
toward what ends, remains exclusively in their hands.
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