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Panich52

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2. Don't forget your local library spy...

Reply to friendly_iconoclast (Original post)

Mon Jan 26, 2015, 10:28 PM

Jan 2015

Libraries aren't specifically mentioned in that 'small print' but you can be sure they're on the list. Librarians' protests when the cursed PATRIOT Act passed gave me new respect for them. But it didn't stop gov't snooping on which books you check out and, most likely, what sites you visit on library computers.

Time-space is all fkd up. 1984 is lasting way too long...

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