I said that Europe’s desire to spy on their own citizens make them vulnerable to Americans spying on them. I guess it is like suggesting a wife shouldn’t stay in an abusive relationship with her husband just because she likes to beat the shit out of her kids.
Europe can’t control what the US does. They can control what they do. They can harden their own Internet (and likely by extension the rest of the world’s) against spying, or they can continue to ask 'MURICA to politely stop. The consequence of a 'MURICA resistant internet is one that is very hard to secretly spy on for everyone.
Encryption works. The US can crack weak encryption slowly. It can’t crack strong encryption in any reasonable amount of time, and it sure a shit can’t crack all the strong encryption at once. Encrypt the Internet with open source and open standards, and the game is over. The consequence of this is that spying gets a lot harder for everyone. Victim blaming or not, Europe has the power to shut this shit down, and I think that they should.
