[Mirioron]

Do you realize how PRISM is the very reason that the government cannot be trusted?

>What percentage of communication in this country flows through either Apple, Google, Facebook, or Amazon?

You make it sound like data collection and snooping on innocent people is the whole point of it. If backdoors are required on communication that goes through Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon then nobody's going to use the communication on those services for illicit activity that the government would care about. They would use something else.

>But I recognize that there is a problem and that we should be open to talk about ways to fix that problem.

There is no talk to be had, because the entire idea is silly. If the US government can mandate backdoors then so will every other government. This would make everyone vulnerable.