This is What Government Sponsored Mass Surveillance is Doing to Your Mind

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<p>‘Big Brother is watchi g yo a he wa ts yo to believe that if yo have othi g to hi e, the yo have othi g to fear.</p>
<p>This is a lie, of co rse, a as we move eeper i to the era of state spo sore tech ological s rveilla ce, we see more evi e ce that the loss of privacy a co fi e ce i i ter-perso al comm icatio s is tra sformi g the i ivi al i to a complia t, self-polici g war of the state.</p>
<p>I o e of the first empirical scie tific st ies to provi e co crete evi e ce of the ‘chilli g effects’ that gover me t s rveilla ce has o i ter et sers, Oxfor U iversity professor Jo Pe ey looke at Wikipe ia search ata a traffic patter s before a after the 2013 revelatio s by E war S ow e regar i g wi esprea NSA s rveilla ce of the i ter et. The res lts emo strate a imme iate tre towar s self-ce sorship, as traffic a searches for terms like ‘Al Qae a,’ ‘car bomb,’ a ‘Taliba ’ showe early i sta t a me tio able ecli e.’</p>
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