{"id":9032,"date":"2013-07-09T04:59:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T04:59:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T04:59:37","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9032","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic: The Problem With the &#8216;Privacy Moderates&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantic: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2013\/07\/the-problem-with-the-privacy-moderates\/277561\/\">The Problem With the &#8216;Privacy Moderates&#8217;<\/a> \/  Their lukewarm defense of civil liberties is more bewildering than outright rejection by Conor Friedersdorf:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What if I told you that the surveillance state goes too far in secretly spying on innocent Americans &#8212; but that Edward Snowden, the NSA contractor who exposed the scope of data collection, and Glenn Greenwald, the recipient of his leaks, shouldn&#8217;t be regarded as exalted heroes? <\/p>\n<p>That sort of non sequitur isn&#8217;t my style. But if I wrote such a sentence in earnest, you&#8217;d know to identify me as a &#8220;privacy moderate.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>These are the Americans who acknowledge, as a consequence of recent revelations, that the national-security state ought to be subject to more oversight, debate, scrutiny, and restrictions, but can&#8217;t bring themselves to rhetorically ally themselves with the people championing those reforms. Instead, they contrive frames that enable them to criticize both the surveillance state <em>and<\/em> its antagonists, as if the excesses of both sides are commensurately important and worrisome. &#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9032\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}