<story><title>Why we can&apos;t go back to business as usual post-PRISM</title><url>https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-June/008838.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>b6</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a peaceful person, but this issue has been simmering in my head for years, and I find myself actually looking forward to some kind of meaningful conflict. I&amp;#x27;m sick, sick, sick to death of the president issuing denials while they keep building more and more infrastructure against humanity. I think the article is right, that it&amp;#x27;ll get worse from here, and in a way, I&amp;#x27;m glad.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why we can&apos;t go back to business as usual post-PRISM</title><url>https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-June/008838.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bayesianhorse</author><text>For me, this incident is an example where the U.S. democracy failed, pure and simple. Obama made campaign promises to not do surveillance. He was elected and then did it anyway. It&amp;#x27;s frankly impossible now to change this issue in a democratic fashion.&lt;p&gt;From the outside it often looks as if American politicians are overly busy with a very expensive &amp;quot;game&amp;quot;, rather than using the game for the greater good.</text></comment>