QOTD: Crazy radical Al Gore
by digby
Via Pando, on the question of the NSA surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden
This is a threat to the heart of democracy. Democracy is among other things a state of mind. If any of us are put in a position where we have to self censor, and think twice about what we write in an email, or what we click on for fear that somebody reading a record of this may misunderstand why we looked up some disease or something, some young people who might otherwise get help with a medical condition, might think oh my gosh if I put down a search for bipolar illness I will be stigmatized if my online file is hacked or accessed by my employer. That kills democracy.
Indeed. Thought crimes are a real democracy killer.
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