<i>&gt;Broadband access is declining, data caps are becoming commonplace, surveillance is increasing, and encryption is under attack.</i><p>One of these is not like the others. Broadband access is hardly a freedom thing; data caps aren&#x27;t either. And attacking encryption is troubling, but can&#x27;t ultimately happen without wholesale outlawing of general computing devices.<p>Which leaves surveillance. But even then, it&#x27;s not really about surveillance so much as it is <i>surveillance by people you don&#x27;t like</i>. Usually large organizations - government that scrubs your data for evidence of threat and may send goons to your house; companies that broker your info and inject data into your brain for cash.<p>Not sure what to do about surveillance, since by definition large organizations with lots of money control politics through campaign contributions, and pretty clearly they see surveillance as a critical part of their immune system (which is actually kind of strange since they&#x27;ve done quite well without ubiquitous electronic surveillance for a long time).