Stop mass surveillance. Just stop!

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: John Gilmore <gnu () toad com>
> Date: August 4, 2017 at 6:16:29 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net, gnu () toad com
> Subject: Stop mass surveillance.  Just stop!
>
> http://freedomofthought.org/blog/?p=24
>
> (Inspired by Paul Rosenzweig's suggestion to "Stop Leaking":
> https://www.lawfareblog.com/stop-leaking-just-stop)
>
> I get it.  You don't like the terrorists.  I don't either, so I understand.  But you, whoever you are, are doing as 
> much damage, if not more, to the United States than they ever will. Really.
>
> I assume you think you are doing the world a favor.  I assume you have the best intentions.  But stop.  Just stop 
> mass surveillance.  Really.
>
> Though it may be fun to give the President transcripts of citizens' calls and emails, you gravely injure America in 
> incalculable ways by doing what you are doing.  For one thing, you are embracing norm-destruction in a way that is no 
> less disturbing than the terrorists' aberrational behavior.  And you don't even have their excuse that you don't know 
> better -- you do.  For another, think of how this plays with other people worldwide -- will any foreigner or American 
> ever again have a candid phone call with any other American?  Why should they assume that this type of domestic 
> spying will stop after Hoover, Nixon, Bush, Obama, Hillary and Trump are all gone?
>
> Yes, I get it, there is a prurient interest in this stuff; and yes, I know you think the unclassified public are 
> jerks.  But in doing this you lower yourself to their level and beyond.  If you are a reader of the Lawfare blog, or 
> know someone who is, you have your own agency's interests at heart.  But, trust me on this one, you aren't doing 
> America a service.  Stop mass surveillance.  Just Stop. 



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