My late father’s job at Southern Bell in the 60’s was tapping phones off the frame. Samuel Morse and Alexander Graham Bell always went along with whatever the government asked of them. Nothing new.
Recording every keystroke and word of 300 million Americans — half of whom are considered “domestic terrorists” for reasons of intimidation and blackmail by a neo-Totalitarian Regime — *IS* something “new.” It’s also out in the open, unprecedented, and yawned at by Congress and the media.