A state spying on it's own citizens... shameful. I'd be outraged, unless of course they said it was part of the war on terror, or whatever China's current favorite boogeyman is.

What do we know about the security of systems such as onStar?

But will a wearing a dongle help?

If you can think of as many distinct sexual activities as there are symbols in your wrinting system, make a table and encode your secret messages as porn movies. (Spies will probably watch them, but probably also forget that they're supposed to be looking for messages.)

"...serious newspapers and comedy TV shows..."

I think a libation is in order.

I think I'll go down to my basement and gather up a buch of old through-hole resistors, caps, potentiometers, 555 timers and 74-series TTL logic. Then I'll fill a 40 oz bottle with them and slowly pour it all out on the ground.

Then maybe I'll scribble my full name, address and phone number on a 3-sheet carbon paper form one last time.

Free speech means it's ok for him to post when he's off his meds.

My hovercraft is full of eels.

Our local Rotary Club gives free dictionaries to all the 3rd graders every year. I checked, but it's not the OED Junior, it's a special edition "Dictionary & Gazetteer" compiled by The Dictionary Project (https://www.dictionaryproject.org/).