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[–] 22 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

Um, actually, in 1984 the government spies on you through your TV, but in real life, corporations spy on you through your TV and the government intercepts the internet traffic and/or asks the corporations for the data, so it's obviously completely different.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago

    They don't intercept anything honestly. They either buy it or receive it through PRISM. Saying they intercept it really isn't the right word when Internet companies literally allow them into their interconnect locations (IXP) to install NSA hardware. I suppose technically you could still call it intercept, but it is more like they just listen to all traffic without any actual clandestine action.

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