Ah, the good old "assange is irrelevant" ploy. If he's so irrelevant, why are you paid trolls here to smear him?

You're demonstrably wrong. The government has been sending paid trolls over the last couple years more than ever. Domestic propaganda was made legal again last year for the first time since the cold war. http://thecable.foreignpolicy....

They're spamming this thread with nonsense because they don't want us even discussing it. Check out any thread talking about Snowden or Wikileaks--you'll find plenty of them there, lile cold fjord.

Who's sending the trolls? Probably not the NSA itself, but the talking points the trolls use are certainly those of the NSA.

Is it their "damn job" to send paid trolls to fill up sites like slashdot with lies and gibberish?

"It's time we agree" on what you paid shills have been pushing since the Snowden leaks began--that he's some sort of double agent? Go to hell, but get an honest job first, rather than cashing checks for attempting in vain to deceive people.

..is here to tell you not to use Tor. Meanwhile, the NSA attempts to monitor its userbase. Good thing taco has a bunch of other paid trolls to upvote his garbage, else he'd just get ignored.

Wow, it's Sarten. the establishment trolls are here, now? But where's cold fjord?

"politically motivated"? like how the ACLU sued Verizon, as its customer, for selling out its customers to the NSA? You must be a fox news viewer--i can't find any other way to explain your profound ignorance.

"But we KNEW they had colluded with google, microsoft and facebook to spy on us!" "But we KNEW the NSA was intercepting shipments of cisco routers to compromise them!" "But we KNEW they're hiring an army of paid trolls to pollute forums!"

NSA-related posts on /. get way more comments than most other topics--is that indicative of "old news"? Think about that next time you say this BS.

The NSA doesn't care about stopping terrorism. That's a colorful yet familiar excuse. It cares about the end of privacy--and that is in its own employees' words.

is that facebook wants every bit of info about me in order to shill me products, mot to retroactively incriminate me if i were ever to become a threat. Facebook also doesn't care about what you fap to, but it's been proven that the NSA does--want to guess why?

None of us can force the broadband monopolies to compete when they act in alliance with one another, requiring a new contendet like google to force them out of their sedentary ways. You assume a free market in that realm when none exists.

big difference.

Yeah, i'm so sure that a former cable lobbyist like Wheeler and co. will see to it that cable companies are MORE burdened. You serioisly nelieve this?