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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3734671" data-attributes="member: 56035">But governments will use whatever technology is available to them to combat their primary enemy – which is their own population,&quot; he told the Guardian.In his first public comment on the scandal that has enveloped the US, UK and other governments, as well as internet companies such as Google and <a href="https://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/microsoft" target="_blank">Microsoft</a>, Chomsky said he was not overly surprised technology and corporations were being used in this way.&quot;This is obviously something that should not be done. But it is a little difficult to be too surprised by it,&quot; he said. &quot;They [governments and corporations] take whatever is available, and in no time it is being used against us, the population. Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.&quot;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/chomsky-nsa" target="_blank">https://www.alternet.org/chomsky-nsa</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3734671, member: 56035"] But governments will use whatever technology is available to them to combat their primary enemy – which is their own population," he told the Guardian. In his first public comment on the scandal that has enveloped the US, UK and other governments, as well as internet companies such as Google and [URL='https://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/microsoft']Microsoft[/URL], Chomsky said he was not overly surprised technology and corporations were being used in this way. "This is obviously something that should not be done. But it is a little difficult to be too surprised by it," he said. "They [governments and corporations] take whatever is available, and in no time it is being used against us, the population. Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich." [URL]https://www.alternet.org/chomsky-nsa[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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