Gov can't freely spy on you
Not surprising. When the government refuses to hold the government accountable for breaking the government's rules, there's no reason the government needs to follow the government's rules anymore in the first place. This is where tyranny starts: not with a bang but with a wink and a nudge.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
I just assume they put every e-mail, phone call, text message, fax, and anything else they can get their hands on into a massive DB and filter for certain shit. Because insecure, corrupt pricks have to do lots of work to keep tabs on all the people they piss off who'd like to get even.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."