Martin Firrell (@MartinFirrell) is a campaigner and cultural activist. In the age of Wikileaks and mass NSA and GCHQ surveillence, his famous quote is of massive contemporary relevance. Though he isn't the only one to be concerned. The maximalist civil libertarian Glenn Greenwald is leading a front against the overbearing US security and surveillance state. He and a team of civil liberties activist have launched a news site The Intercept (@the_intercept). Christopher Hitchens also fought back against the tentacles of the state and said in the August 2003 issue of Reason.
"The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both."Gore Vidal said in 199 during during an address, ‘Writer’s Perspective: Smithsonian Institute’:
"I don’t know where the Internet is going to go but I do know that the government is going to try and take it over. You can count on that."
