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Snowden, NSA and surveillance fears back in online debate
Original: # meme # politics # society # surveillance # control # snowden # nsa # terrorism # terror # tracking # internet # usa #
Discussions about mass surveillance in the United States are circulating widely, drawing on Edward Snowden's NSA revelations and themes of state tracking, counter-terrorism and privacy. Commenters invoke Orwellian 'Big Brother' imagery, framed around internet freedom and control, with pirate and privacy movements voicing opposition to government monitoring programmes.
Why now: Concerns over government surveillance and privacy remain a recurring flashpoint, resurfacing in political debate online.
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Rank over time, top of the chart is #1. 20 snapshots from 15 h ago to 16 min ago.
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- # meme # politics # society # surveillance # control # snowden # nsa # terrorism # terror # tracking # internet # usa # secretservice # freedom # privacy # pirateparty # pirate # bigbrother # Orwell · scriptkiddie@anonsys.net · 10
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