There’s been a wee fracas as Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen (of Netscape Navigator fame) popped a foot in his mouth with what looks like a thoughtless or uninformed defence of the NSA’s illegal spying activities with a suggestion that former East Germans would fail to see similarities between the NSA’s mass surveillance and the operations of the hated secret police the Stasi …
“Ask anyone who loved under Stasi.” Ummm … Bokay … (click for Twitter link to this exchange)
By a strange coincidence, as Glenn Greenwald pointed out, here’s a kinda relevant somebody’s point of view …
“This is like the Stasi!” — former East German resident and German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Pres. Obama – click for link to The Guardian
But before we New Zealanders get too carried away …
Gulp (click for link to Forbes.)
Gee, is this like, the new Godwin’s Law?
– P
