On 09/02/13 08:46, Caspar Bowden (lists) wrote:
On 09/01/13 21:49, Michael Rogers wrote:
...
Wasn't the NSA closer to the panoptic ideal when it was No Such Agency
than now, when we know we're being watched?
Yes, absolutely, but I don't think NSA wanted that, although a grimly
conspiratorial interpretation of current events is that it is a vast
planned PR gambit to effect transition to a global neo-Panoptic
society, after all civil libertarians have exhausted themselves in
protest...
Sorry I misread, that was a non-seqitur, i.e. the NSA is *now* the
warden of a Panoptic Internet in consequence of the revelations. When it
was No Such Agency, the Panoptic effect only occurs with "paranoids" or
(as above speculatively) unconsciously
CB
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