User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-5857520-20140204202853/@comment-635932-20140204211815

I didn't bother reading anything but the first comment, but what are you talking about? The government is just as morally free to browse wikis as anyone else. You have to understand that not every piece of information is identical. Snooping emails, private interactions between clients and servers, and requiring ISPs to hand over vast amounts of information that even the ISPs themselves are not allowed to filter through or look at, is not the same thing.

There is a massive difference between information that is *already* publically, freely available (such as wiki pages), which of course the government is just as entitled to as any individual, and information which is promised to not be legal for anyone but the client to divulge to any party. When the government passes 'laws' allowing them to do things, where the laws require that the public not even be aware that said laws exist, they are hardly what I would call legitimate.

The U.S. government, and U.S. megacorporations (same thing), own the vast majority of the planet, and *directly* view and filter and process the vast majority of *all* worldwide. If you think otherwise, you should open your eyes and try to see the history and public opinion that they craft, past the culture of confusion, disinformation and 'conservatism' that they literally *buy* with their endless resources. If you think things like short term greed, corporatism, monsanto, PRISM, Boundless Informant and corporate lobby are okay, if you think that our wars in the Middle East were motivated by anything but oil and controlling pop culture, you're just as blinded and misled as the vast majority of Americans.

Pretend I didn't just use the word 'vast' four times.