It makes it very interesting, because since he woke up in 2012, he arrived in the world that was already very cynical in ways about privacy and surveillance. For those of us living through it it's been a slow slide, and hence deceptively easy to get used to, but for someone coming from outside it must be very strange, and also gives him clarity that's perhaps harder to reach when one has been told it's all for safety, whether the threats are credible or not.
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Date: 2019-03-23 08:39 pm (UTC)