When Facebook (or any other site) that loads up their pages with 10 video ads that all start automatically and simultaneously, and 50 other static ads, give me 50+ mb/s internet service for free, I’ll consider turning off the ad bloc. Until then I simply won’t look at the garbage.

The issue is this: after the 9/11 attacks and the enactment of The Patriot Act in October 2001 we were promised by the Bush Administration that none of these enhanced authorities would be used to spy on Americans. Everyone knew that was BS from the start. In the succeeding years we’ve learned the extent of that lie;…