The Guardian publishes a lengthy but well constructed essay of Eben Moglen, titled "Privacy under attack: the NSA files revealed new threats to democracy". It is one of the most insightful excursion into why privacy matters, why Snowden cannot be considered a traitor; has well picked examples from history; hints about what the civil society could do (my cynical note: if only it'd be interested) to reclaim privacy back. Granted, takes about an hour to read (and probably a lifetime to filter by first-hand experience: unfortunately not the kind of experience one would wish for).
(I dare not write a digest for SN, the essay is so coherent and round that I'm afraid any omission would damage its discourse. Can't do nothing but recommend it for reading: if you can't do on a working say, save the link for the weekend)
(Score: 2, Informative) by monkey999 on Sunday June 01 2014, @01:36PM
This is a terrible summary; it basically says "I'm not telling you what this is, but you should read it"
It could at least have included some quotes. Or you could have used the old standby of copying the 'teaser', which is:
(Score: 2) by Open4D on Monday June 02 2014, @12:34PM
I disagree. Did you only read the "I dare not write a digest" bit of the summary? The 'teaser' you quoted from the Guardian is less useful than the first full paragraph of the Soylent summary - which I'll quote here for you:
How much more do you want submitters to write?
(Score: 1) by monkey999 on Monday June 02 2014, @07:04PM
(Score: 2) by Open4D on Thursday June 05 2014, @09:07PM
So, I take it you dislike my Mobile App Use Grows at the Expense of Mobile Web [soylentnews.org] summary?
And you'd delete parts of my Sugru, the Maker Community "Wonder Material" [soylentnews.org] and Gunshot Victims to be Put in Suspended Animation [soylentnews.org] summaries?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by monkey999 on Friday June 06 2014, @07:47PM
The first one is much too wordy and could be tightened up a lot. The second two each have one sentence with the word 'I' in it, and would both be improved by deleting that clause or sentence. So yes, these are good examples of the rule.