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Interesting read (part way through it)
This is a scathing and intriguing take: Now, four years after the Snowden leak, we can see that all that energy and outrage and potential for civic action has been redirected into a narrow band of mass-politics-by-app. The new consensus, bruited loudly in and around Silicon Valley, holds that all we need to do to protect ourselves from surveillance is download whatever crypto chat app is in vogue at the moment, and run it on our iPhones. Instead of finding political and democratic solutions to the government and corporate surveillance crisis plaguing our society, the privacy movement somehow ended up in a libertarian rut. This is a non-trivial problem. I would actually agree with the kernel of truth that technological solutions are absolutely part of the picture. But, I also wholeheartedly agree the idea that only technological solutions are required is undoubtedly it's own psyop at this point.

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