Recommend you think about it a bit more philosophically. With 122,000 members, expecting this site to be like it was a decade ago is akin to moving to a big city and lamenting over life there not being like the small town you grew up in.
Socialize with the folks you like and respect. Let the...
One key difference: The amount of money the U.S. is borrowing. We'll need to borrow $2 trillion next year, if nothing changes. The debt is piling up at an alarming rate, and that can't continue forever. Plenty of nations have gone down this road, and the result is always economic collapse.
Some people think the Civil War was about states' rights. Others think it was about slavery.
Actual, but forgotten, history: It was about the bill of sale issue.
NSA likely scrapes the entire Internet on a regular basis, and puts it through sophisticated analytical software, the same way they do with voice and other data, doing pattern matching for matters of national security interest. They either scrape as a bot pretending to be a search engine, or...