Cowards
There's a meme on Reddit that revolves around 'so brave': basically calling people/posts/comments out for obvious pandering.<p>This reads like a pastiche of Keith Olbermann, all bravado and empty gusto.  Arrington writes:<p><i>What has these people, among the wealthiest on the planet, so scared that they find themselves engaging in these verbal gymnastics to avoid telling a simple truth?</i><p>and then acknowledges that doing so, if it meant breaking FISA, is illegal.<p><i>Because their lawyers might be telling them what they are required to do. But their soul should be telling them what they must do.</i><p>What the hell does this even mean?<p>Listen, I completely agree with the central premise that we need to have an actual conversation both about privacy in the age of Facebook and the Kafka-esque way the U.S. government has engineered these catch-22 gag orders.  But given Arrington's experience both with AOL and with the overall notion of privacy, I'd expect something with a little more substance and perspective.