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Nearly every country in the world found itself in a similar bind… | blogjou

Edward Snowden

Permanent Record

p. 330
13 Nov 2019

Nearly every country in the world found itself in a similar bind...


Nearly every country in the world found itself in a similar bind: its citizens outraged, its government complicit. Any government that relies on surveillance to maintain control of a citizenry that regards surveillance as anathema to democracy has effectively ceased to be a democracy.