Nearly every day we read a story of the government wiping their ass with the constitution. Every day there is a story telling us how the government is tapping each landline, mobile, internet connected computer, satellite uplink,... All this happens daily and I have not seen mass protests. We here at slashdot (tech savy people) know whats going on. We know that this is just the tip of the iceberg and there is lots more going on. Still no reaction from the general public. Its like the population of the United States has become numb to these stringent violation of human rights, basic privacy laws, the constitution and the declaration of independence.
Seeing people just completely ignore these facts and just continue eating their McDonalds and watching their episodes of glee on tv makes me sick to my stomach.
We got 2 choices as educated citizens: Either say "f*ck you" to the general population and we continue to protect ourself with Tor, PGP, Darknets/Freenet, SSH tunnels, Proxies
OR
All the hackers, nerds, tech savy people around the world to unite and make a new internet. Independent of government and corporate control. Protocols that are inherently secure. Transport methods in which the nodes where data passes trough doesn't know the content, sender or destination. (I know many of you will scream tor) but TOR is not the solution. We need transparent methods. Methods that can be used by joe average.
Mod me down, I don't care its your loss.