Comment by vintermann
7 days ago
Not me, I didn't. That conspiracy was certainly pretty big, but there was also a ton of smaller leaks as you'd expect on a real conspiracy of that size, so you certainly wouldn't be called nuts for assuming NSA were spying on a lot they weren't supposed to.
Security state loyalists were not nearly as influential in online discourse back then, as they are now. Probably astroturfing, AI and algorithmic amplification plays a part in that.
> so you certainly wouldn't be called nuts for assuming NSA were spying on a lot they weren't supposed to.
You say that like it isn't what happened.
If anything there were more security state loyalists in the first years after 9/11 than there are now.