Cool Stuff the U.S. Government Has Done (and Is Doing)
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#2I'm on my phone so I can't really put out a long response but...
> There are only about 4 hops between any 2 people on Facebook. If you take the median number of Facebook friends on one account (100) and raise it to the 3rd power, you get 1 million people every time one person is placed under surveillance.
Cool, 100^3 = 1mil. I wonder what the average number of shared friends a user has with their network. Otherwise by this reasoning there are about a million times more people on facebook than there are facebook accounts.
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#3I'm on my phone so I can't really put out a long response but...
> There are only about 4 hops between any 2 people on Facebook. If you take the median number of Facebook friends on one account (100) and raise it to the 3rd power, you get 1 million people every time one person is placed under surveillance.
Cool, 100^3 = 1mil. I wonder what the average number of shared friends a user has with their network. Otherwise by this reasoning there are about a million times more people on facebook than there are facebook accounts.
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#5This list is so bare it's depressing. Here's some more stories, but really, this page should be at least 10 pages long just for the past 12 years. Hell, reading a Noam Chompsky book or two will give you even better material going back before the 60's through the 90's.
2001-2011: A decade of civil liberties’ erosion in America http://www.civilfreedoms.org/?p=7260
The 10 most outrageous civil liberties violations of 2006. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudenc...
Are we becoming a police state? Five things that have civil liberties advocates nervous http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/the-daily-need/are-we-b...
Obama crushes civil liberties like Bush never did http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/obama-crushes-civil-liberties-lik...
For a brief look back in history: Who is the worst civil liberties president in US history? http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/02/obama-ci...
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