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by donkeyd 1107 days ago
> it was logistically barely possible to spy on 100%

It still is. LE barely has enough capacity to fight every criminal, let alone watch 100% of everything everyone does online. And if you look at how tough a time social media are having at content moderation it seems like tools to automate this well don't exist yet. Just look at stories like this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2013/10/15/n...