[United States of America] Political cartoon by John Jonik 2005
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Commented on Sun Sep 28 13:12:00 2025 UTC
too relevant in today's world
too relevant in today's world
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│ Commented on Sun Sep 28 15:13:45 2025 UTC
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│ Because the War on Terror is exactly what enabled all this to happen. Civil libertarians warned us that the powers we were giving the government to fight terrorism could be easily turned against us. They were ignored, shouted down, and called un-American. As W said, "You're either with us or against us."
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│ Because the War on Terror is exactly what enabled all this to happen. Civil libertarians warned us that the powers we were giving the government to fight terrorism could be easily turned against us. They were ignored, shouted down, and called un-American. As W said, "You're either with us or against us."
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│ │ Commented on Sun Sep 28 15:44:46 2025 UTC
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│ │ I don't think it has started with the war on terror. The NSA has been fighting email privacy since the early 90s at least and they were involved in sabotaging security protocols and preventing the export of networking devices with effective encryption, making everyone less safe from cybercrime in the process.
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│ │ The War on Terror was significant, because it allowed the intelligence community to win the fight once and for all. Both in terms of what they were allowed to do and the kind of civilian oversight they were subject to. And where the US lead the rest of the western world followed, so most of Europe seems to work on a similar model as well now.
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│ │ I don't think it has started with the war on terror. The NSA has been fighting email privacy since the early 90s at least and they were involved in sabotaging security protocols and preventing the export of networking devices with effective encryption, making everyone less safe from cybercrime in the process.
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│ │ The War on Terror was significant, because it allowed the intelligence community to win the fight once and for all. Both in terms of what they were allowed to do and the kind of civilian oversight they were subject to. And where the US lead the rest of the western world followed, so most of Europe seems to work on a similar model as well now.
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│ │ │ Commented on Sun Sep 28 16:28:00 2025 UTC
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│ │ │ Some notable 90s citations that spring to mind:
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│ │ │ 1991: Phil Zimmerman investigated as an Pretty Good Privacy - Wikipedia
│ │ │ 1993: The world wide web goes public
│ │ │ 1993: Clipper chip - Wikipedia
│ │ │ 1996: Bernstein v. United States - Wikipedia
│ │ │ 1996/1997: Communications Decency Act - Wikipedia and Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union - Wikipedia
│ │ │ 1997: No Electronic Theft Act - Wikipedia
│ │ │ 1998: Child Online Protection Act - Wikipedia
│ │ │ 1998: Digital Millennium Copyright Act - Wikipedia
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│ │ │ Some notable 90s citations that spring to mind:
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│ │ │ 1991: Phil Zimmerman investigated as an Pretty Good Privacy - Wikipedia
│ │ │ 1993: The world wide web goes public
│ │ │ 1993: Clipper chip - Wikipedia
│ │ │ 1996: Bernstein v. United States - Wikipedia
│ │ │ 1996/1997: Communications Decency Act - Wikipedia and Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union - Wikipedia
│ │ │ 1997: No Electronic Theft Act - Wikipedia
│ │ │ 1998: Child Online Protection Act - Wikipedia
│ │ │ 1998: Digital Millennium Copyright Act - Wikipedia
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