Comment privacy invasion is a threat to democracy (Score 5, Insightful) 212
How can you have a democracy if those in power can spy on potential opponents and make public every little peccadillo? Here's your senator taking a dump. Here's your congressman picking his nose. Here's a dumb email she wrote when she was 18.
Lots of people don't really grow up until they are about 30. But that won't stop those in power from digging up the dirt on the silly things their opponents did in their twenties and showing them off for all to see. Lets face it, we all did dumb things in our twenties. No privacy, no democracy, it's that simple.
Possible the single best protection for children is an affluent functioning democracy. The US is throwing away democracy and the affluence will follow.