Its not just pesky individuals and groups from the religion of peace.
The U.S. government and I'd bet every government, has always attempted to regulate and listen in on radio television communications of its people. Back in the day off shore stations were I think pretty easy to pin point and only a handful of the population had the equipment to instantly express ideas with someone in Germany, Slovenia or the U.K. But with the advent of the world wide web every thing has changed. Almost everyone has instant access to somone on the otherside of the world. If you ask me subversive individuals and groups have taken advantage of this a long time ago. Governments on the otherhand are playing catch-up to the times and need to work with private companies to do what they did before the internet.
Its nothing new, if we dont like it then just unplug. But we need to realize that there are people and groups out there who wish to do us harm and take away what we have.
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