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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Privatization and the Snowden affair

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Privatization and the Snowden affair:

Privatization and the Snowden affair


With all the talk about Snowden, it's easy to lose sight of the real issue here --- the surveillance and collection of massive amounts of information on US citizens – from emails, to telephone calls, to videos, under the Prism program and other Fisa court orders.

As juicy to the media as Snowden escape story, or his pole-dancing girlfriend  may be, his story is just a sideshow to the debate his whistle-blowing has opened up around the government's violations of its own citizens constitutional rights vs. national security requirements.

The Guardian, which has done most of the heavy lifting and risk-taking (especially ace reporter Glenn Greenwald)