I hate, hate, hate comments like these. They serve absolutely no purpose other than saying I told you so.
Yes, some of us understood the spying is broad, but I don't think most of us expected the cables to be tapped directly, and take all the data like from a firehose and store it all. How can you say even that doesn't surprise you? And even if it doesn't you think 99% of the people out there understood this?
Does your mom or dad think it's okay their phone calls are stored and analyzed by the government?
Anyway, just because you (probably) knew this was going on, doesn't mean there shouldn't be a time to get outraged about it.
No. OP is saying that he is not outraged because he wasn't surprised. He may not like the fact that it is happening, but he is not outraged. That was the point of the comment. A little bit of 'I told you so', and a little more of 'stop getting so upset, because if you really cared you would have known.' The only thing that changed with Snowden is that now you know about it.
But lets be honest, we are talking about spying. If we didn't already know, we should have assumed, because the point of spying is to know everything. What did everybody thing spying was? Because it certainly isn't legal. And now that everybody understands what spying entails I am supposed to be outraged? Yawn. Wake me up when the secret police ACTUALLY start taking people away. Because until till then, the NSA is doing its job, and that is spying however legal or illegal it may be.
But when that day comes, if history serves as any precedent, I'll know about it before you do.
Yes, some of us understood the spying is broad, but I don't think most of us expected the cables to be tapped directly, and take all the data like from a firehose and store it all. How can you say even that doesn't surprise you? And even if it doesn't you think 99% of the people out there understood this?
Does your mom or dad think it's okay their phone calls are stored and analyzed by the government?
Anyway, just because you (probably) knew this was going on, doesn't mean there shouldn't be a time to get outraged about it.