【Secret Confessions : Pag May Alak, May Balak Fun Episode 9】

2025-06-26 05:03:48 243 views 799 comments

Edward Snowden warned us we were just an election away from surveillance-based tyranny.

In 2013,Secret Confessions : Pag May Alak, May Balak Fun Episode 9 the former NSA contractor-turned whilstleblower spoke about the dangers of allowing a surveillance state to bloom before handing its powers to a president willing to use them for whatever he or she likes.

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"A new leader will be elected, they'll flip the switch, say that because of the crisis, because of the dangers that we face in the world -- some new and unpredicted threat -- we need more authority, we need more power," Snowden said. "And there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. It will be turnkey tyranny."

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Enter Donald Trump, a man who mercilessly attacked political opponents in the run-up to his victory in Tuesday's presidential election, a man who has said he would love to have the "power" to hack his adversaries, who has called for an immigration ban for Muslims -- a group that dealt with intense government surveillance in the aftermath of 9/11.

The first part of Snowden's warning has come true. A man with authoritarianism on his mind has been elected president.

Now, we'll see if the second part of Snowden's warning follows the first.

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