The Surveillance State: When Tyranny Comes Home

Many Americans have been shocked by recent revelations of widespread surveillance on domestic citizens by the United States government. But how was this network created in the first place? Chris Coyne and Abby Hall explain how the tools and tactics used for spying on citizens are the product of the "Boomerang Effect"–the pattern by which policies and technologies developed to militarily control populations abroad are re-imported to America and used against its own citizens.

More research from Chris Coyne and Abby Hall:

[radixreuel]

I WATCHED
an interview where they had all these various technology geeks & influencers talking about Orwell & the question proposed was what would Orwell think of present day society? One of the talking heads mentioned that Orwell wouldn’t be so impressed with the technology but that fact that The Powers That Be, got the mass public to not only pay for it, but able to place a premium on the most personally invasive/intrusive devices.
ALL FOR YOUR SAFETY.

“Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
-Edward Snowden

[fmdandrea]

This is a very interesting book. Recommended.

[cargocultpod]

lmaoooo yall had me until "available on amazon" ... biggest surveillance state company out there rn

[steveriley-uyoq]

This Surveillance State should be abolished, ...set as a Executive order and tell Foreign Order we're out.

[michaelshanereynolds]

what do you mean ingraham is going to be working that evans angle some more . lol

[chriszablocki]

You're just not qualified to make form any relevant conclusions with this process. It doesn't work. It's broken.