[mschuster91]

Some people unfortunately are far too willing to exchange a sense of "security" or "justice" for (effectively) all of their privacy.

A large part of that, IMHO, comes from mass media outright programming people to be afraid. Fear sells, and authoritarian politicians are more than willing to capitalize on selling the "solution".

[sometimelurker]

reminds me of captian America 2, in which the villains (hydra) said that what people actually want is security, not freedom. most people are boring blue-pillers* in this regard.

*(which I mean in the literal meaning in the matrix)