NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep
Great, let's start doing something about it instead of complaining. Here's my cynical take on a back of the napkin recipe for political change:<p>1. Call, write, tweet, and facebook your representatives, both local and federal, and tell them what you think- be sure to inflate your credentials and threaten to give money/votes/accolades to their political enemies. For bonus points, tell their enemies the same thing. For even more bonus points, run as a candidate yourself.<p>2. Write/speak/act out in the public sphere, make sure to get as much attention as possible and to be moderately vitriolic and abundantly populist in your rhetoric. Use only words, concepts, and rhetoric that a dim 9th grader would understand.<p>3. Join a physical protest- if there isn't one near you, it's your job to start one. I'd keep it nonviolent if I were you. I know that this isn't the cup of tea for most HN readers, but there's no way around it: physical presence matters, and the numbers of people who have protested surveillance thus far have been extremely paltry. We don't have the luxury of waiting for someone else to do it for us.<p>4. Convince your less-enlightened friends and relatives to do items 1-5, or at least be terrified of the government.<p>5. Start again from 1; repeat until successful.