What is this picture? What is this ominous, black building? Well, it has an equally ominous purpose. This is the headquarters of the National Security Agency, or the NSA. This is a government agency which has been executing mass surveillance on all civilians, without warrant or reason. This agency is the reason why people use the deep web, VPNs, proxies, and other security measures. They monitor and collect all the data that they can, sift through it at an alarming rate, find "Threats" (They haven't really done much for the past couple years they have been operating).
So what are they doing, if they only caught 50 cases of terrorism and played less than a 20% role in catching terrorists? Well beyond gross violations to privacy and our basic constitutional rights, and the fact that they are storing all the data and forcing companies to give them information, not much but being a money drain and a reason to despise the government. What is this data being used for? Why are they collecting data on everyone? Why does this sound like 1984? Now that I said all of that, I await the arrival of NSA officials or, more likely, some FBI/CIA agent to arrest me for either some made up charge or because they can.
This is what internet activists have been fighting. They have been under assault from a government which is violating everyone's rights. Organizations such as FFTF, ACLU, and many others have been fighting these violations as much as they can. The only way to stop these programs is for more people to be aware and to stand up against such atrocities.
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