Nicole Powers from Suicide Girls sat down with me at my office last month for a long, in-depth interview that’s just been published: “You can’t escape it anywhere. It’s a race to the bottom all around the world right now. Canada, Germany, the US, and the UK, as well as the rest of the EU, are basically locked in a race to see who can implement 1984 the fastest. The US — obviously now you’ve got indefinite detention for American citizens on US soil. In Canada we’re on the verge of getting this lawful intercept bill that’s as bad as anything anywhere else in the world. In the UK we have the Digital Economy Act and widespread biometrics. In Germany the police just got caught deploying what they’ve called the 0zapftis Trojan, the government trojan where when people cross the borders and they examine their laptops they covertly put spyware on their computers so they can watch them after the fact. I mean really, at every turn there’s somebody doing this, so it doesn’t matter where you live. It really doesn’t at this point. That’s one of the things that I’ve really come to realize, the fight is global.”
