Governments Covertly Fund Internet Freedom Activists

[shelley at misanthropia.org]

On March 1, 2015 10:51:09 AM brian carroll <electromagnetize at gmail.com> wrote:

> perhaps the institutionalization of 'royal perks' explains
> in part the necessity of a one-party governing system,
> where any actual opposition (politics) are then managed
> and absorbed into this model, to protect/secure/maintain
> aristocratic lifestyles otherwise threatened by actual change,
> where the focus of issues of subsidy then becomes the poor:
>
> "hark! peasants are drinking wine, wine!! with Our Money!"
>
> (in a top-down surveillance context, who benefits/profits most?)

^ This +100.  Very prescient; I could not have put it any better.