It’s not just the NSA spying on us, the data mining/target marketing that Google, facebook and other search/social media sites are engaged in is insidious. Here’s an interesting TED* talk video that explains how the data mining is just the beginning. The information being gathered is being used to filter, personalize, and limit the data coming back to us ~
 

 
Sounds plausible. If search engines/algorithms are funneling only limited, personalized data to each individual internet user, it could certainly explain the low-information voter phenomenon. The truth has been unable to break through each unique “filter bubble.”
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*Caveat: I’m not exactly enamored with the whole TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) movement; they purport to be open to all viewpoints ~

Today, TED is best thought of as a global community. It’s a community welcoming people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world.

(But the “deeper understanding” automatically precludes any supernatural explanations, i.e., “God.”)

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Related:
Why Christians Should Be Speaking Up about the Surveillance State ~

Our Founding Fathers saw the Bill of Rights as providing barriers against government overreach and abuse.
 
People (particularly people in governments with power) could not be trusted to have no checks on their power. Why? Well, some of it had to do with history. For example, a bill of rights was an English concept preceeding the American experiment. But, some of those colonists held the view because of biblical convictions about fallen nature and the need to protect rights that some might want to take away. […]
 
Perhaps too many (Christians today) do not see a correlation between dignity of all persons made in the image of God and constitutional rights, a free society and a realistic view of what power does to people.