Why are people so pissed about the "government spying on them"...

[KodiaX987]

...And meanwhile, Twitter is enjoying a massive success?

[beatrixkiddo]

I don't use Twitter, but posting your whereabouts and current activities to Twitter is a consensual release of confidentiality, whereas being spied on (by anyone) is not.

You might not want your neighbors watching you take a shower, but if you choose to let your significant other see you, are you a hypocrite for the first statement?

[Randomness]

Gee... I wonder.

I'm putting it down to the general public's general idiocy here. Too many people being too lazy to do research, and believing everything they here. (Myself, I doubt its technologically feasible for the government to monitor the entire population at once.)

Its certainly quite ironic.

[raikomaru40]

Most of the gov't is probably still stupid and is monitoring at least everyone w/ a middle-eastern name, if anyone.

[CrimsomWolf]

People like being protected, but they don't like government cracking their whip and actually doing something seriously.

This topic was discussed thoroughly: You can't have lots of freedom and be entirely safe.

Also, the less public knows, the better they sleep; i.e if people know they're spied on then somebody (in this case the CIA, NSA, or whichever agency deals with internal matters in U.S) really screwed up.

[Leviathan]

If the government is spying on you, you probably did something to invoke that.

Twitter is the new facebook, which was the new myspace, which was the new xanga.
Before that the internet happened.

[CrimsomWolf]

Internet was created from military intelligence program.

For all we know, it may be the largest surveillance system on the planet.
Or I just read too much Metal Gear plots

[Tessu]

...And meanwhile, Twitter is enjoying a massive success?

Thread kinda ended here, guys.

[Solstis]

Internet was created from military intelligence program.

For all we know, it may be the largest surveillance system on the planet.
Or I just read too much Metal Gear plots

If by military intelligence you mean an intelligent idea from the military, yes. More about communication rather than strictly intelligence gathering purposed.

[Shadowpawn]

The internet was designed to protect information if a large scale attack was inflected on database networks. If one when down, the other nodes would still be up because the entire structure was decentralized. So it really wasn't about communication and more so about intelligence preservation. When the academic world decided to dabble in the project that's when communication took priority over information farming.