{"id":13933,"date":"2013-10-24T01:25:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T05:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/movie-blog\/2013\/10\/the-government-knows-your-reading-this.html"},"modified":"2018-06-29T09:06:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T13:06:22","slug":"the-government-knows-your-reading-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/movie-blog\/2013\/10\/the-government-knows-your-reading-this\/","title":{"rendered":"The Government Knows You&#8217;re Reading This&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Stone, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Phil Donahue, Mark Ruffalo, and Wil Wheaton. These are just a few of the Hollywood notables who have joined politicians, veterans, and public interest groups to endorse the StopWatching.Us coalition&#8217;s opposition of &#8220;wide spread, suspicionless surveillance of American citizens&#8221; by our our modern surveillance state. 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