I am utterly baffled as to how you consider my statements to imply it is something unique to Europe. Let me spell this out really clearly for you. I am an American citizen. I am pissed, angry, and revile the spying happening on American citizens. It is an absolute violation of our constitution. I personally am working my damndest to stop it as much as any one person can. In my fantasy land, Europe realizes that 'MURICA spying on Europeans is a bad thing, and Europe institutes strong encryption across their 'tubes to secure themselves. As a selfish ass American, this translates into secure intertubes for me. I can’t think of a better defense against NSA spying than my data existing in a Europe that values privacy over spying. I want Europe to take my data and money.
America’s desire to spy on its own citizens is the reason that America hasn’t shut down the NSA as an illegal organisation already, stormed the NSA’s gates, rearranged all their bytes into ascending numerical order and sent the supercomputers off to universities and NASA to do something useful and harmless.
Oh look, I said it. I agree with it completely.
The difference is that American politicians see the spying as a boon to them. Europe is in a different position. Europe gets exactly nothing from the US spying on them. American politicians are not pissed to learn that we have 0wn3d the shit out of the rest of the world. Europe on the other hand SHOULD be pissed off that they are the victims and do something about it other than bitch and moan and ask the US politely to stop. Fucking defend yourself. The price of defense is that the European surveillance state will have to shut down. Fucking pay it, and let me give you my data and money.
The best defense an American citizen has against mass warrantless spying by an American State that would give the Stasi a hard on, is a Europe that values their own defense and sovereignty over spying on their own citizens.
I am happily working my end here, but Europe needs to do something other than cry about being the victim. Don’t let your politicians use this as something the distract you from European problems. If your politician cite this as a problem, demand that they fucking do something about it, with that something being the hardening of the European Internet. Any other response is a domestic sideshow.
