Protests Against Echelon Vanish After 9/11
I was browsing the internet today, and I came across this article. I didn't read the whole thing. I got to this paragraph:
"I remember vividly what I was doing on the morning of September 11. My hair was standing on end before the planes struck the World Trade Centre. I was trolling the web and copied several stories about a new project called Echelon, a worldwide network of satellites and computers which had the capability to read or record the secrets of anyone, any company, any government, anywhere. The European Union was about to protest about Echelon, the stories said. After 9/11 there has been a complete absence of stories about Echelon."
I didn't know that... and as it turns out... he's right...
https://web.archive.org/web/20011110121901/http://www.statewatch.org/news/2001/sep/023link.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20010713...ory/11770.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20180813145126/http://www.ilka.org/themen/infotech/tokio.html
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/jun2001/ech-j06.shtml
It's amazing how many major stories were about to break before 9/11, and how they suddenly vanished afterwards.