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> We don't know how officials will behave if they have to pay a persistent, meaningful cost for surveilling us. We've never tried it.

To try that, step one would be making people aware of what's even happening. As you say, news orgs are failing us all.

Assange and Snowden took Step One toward that end... And were made an international example of. The institutions and news orgs who ought to have been their main support failed, and even turned on them in most cases.




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