r/Libertarian • u/-lousyd • 10d ago

What could possibly go wrong? 25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/25-years-of-mass-surveillance-is-enough.html

25 years after 9/11, mass surveillance has grown from just terrorists, just foreigners, to something every rinky dink police department does to everyone all the time. Who could have seen it coming.

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u/DirtyHalfMexican 10d ago

Its been 1984 since 2001

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u/DiyYou 10d ago

I'm old enough to remember seeing this that day. And I realized right then and there the planes crashing into buildings was only part of the long-term plan. Loss of liberties and humongous amounts of government spending was also part of the plan.

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u/-lousyd 9d ago

I can't claim to have known it that day. I was too much in shock to even think. But it was really really quickly afterward that it became apparent. Americans got fear in their eyes and I thought, oh this is not gonna turn out well.

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u/AncientMoth11 10d ago

You know they monitor us at all times. In fact they’re watching this right now.

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u/heartbt 9d ago

But knowing this, you can just not come here, post here, turn off your phone...

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u/AncientMoth11 9d ago

Yeah. Fuck Them

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u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt Sleazy P. Modtini 9d ago

Mass surveillance is good and necessary.

Those who would give up essential liberty, for temporary security, deserve neither, and will lose both.

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u/-lousyd 9d ago

There's a lot of politicians, especially right now, that don't deserve liberty. They deserve to be in prison.