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It's about time technically literate people run for political office, so far we are seen as computer janitors, there to fix problems and clean masses and vanish, and not a serious profession like accountants, lawyers or doctors worthy of holding political office or a station of equal status on societies ladder despite the industry holding a critical role on the global economy and the daily lives of most people on the planet.

Peter Sunde has been bold, controversial in standing up to the old models of not only intellectual property and ownership, but to ideas of civil liberties and freedom in the post-digital age, peoples right to basic civil liberties are being eroded by loopholes introduced by technology and the existing generation of technically illiterate politicians and judiciary are not equipped to face these challenges.
That fact that issues arising from the Snowden leaks are divided more on a generational way than than the traditional party political left/right divide is further evidence of this.

The government have no business monitoring electronic communications of people than they have the right to open letters and break into your home and read your papers without a warrant naming you specifically of a crime endorsed by a judge who has carefully reviewed the evidence against you in a transparent, open process.