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Internet’s Pervasive Espionage

Some of us worry about federal law enforcement agencies spying on what we say online, what we read or who we count as friends. But Edward Snowden — the former National Security Agency consultant, now living in exile in Russia — says the spying runs much deeper than that.

Here, he talks about how the spy agencies even track how we play video games to gauge what motivates us to win or to succeed. So we are being judged by the moves we make in our gamesmanship as much as by whether we read Karl Marx or John Birch Society pamphlets. This is taking freedom of press, or speech, to entirely different levels than most of us ever imagined.

Are these agencies violating our rights? How about the Internet riff-raff, like the giant firms of Google or Meta, that frequently sell off data on specific blocs of customers? Here’s more from XAndrewX.