I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.

Now terrorism is not the greatest threat facing our societies.

Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types… Did we get to where we are today via a slippery slope that was entirely within our control to stop? Or was it a relatively instantaneous sea change that sneaked in undetected because of pervasive government secrecy?

So many of the things we're told by the government simply aren't true.

What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country.

We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back.

I have had no contact with the Chinese government ... I only work with journalists.