Comment by segmondy
12 years ago
Lavabit is small. Who did their shutdown directly affect? Imagine Google going down for a full day, even homeless people will raise pitch forks and match down to DC to protest.
12 years ago
Lavabit is small. Who did their shutdown directly affect? Imagine Google going down for a full day, even homeless people will raise pitch forks and match down to DC to protest.
I see it as just simple power struggle between companies and government - China won the round against Google a few year back by kicking googe out completely.
The power in US government would love the same leverage.
They will get it eventually - start with NSA in secret, but slowly congress can pass the law and bit by bit....
That's why FB and google are implanting the notions of "no privacy" in everyone's mind. Good for their business and also makes it easier to hand over the data to whoever governments/agencies in the future.
If you want to fight for freedom, but are too busy, take some of your startup lottery money and hire some underemployed folks to raise pitchforks and march on DC.