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[mayneack]

Barely a notice? I'd say this is noticed quite a bit compared to other world powers being dismantled. Every random civil libertarian with a blog will be able to point to their blog and say "I saw this coming." Sure, many people probably noticed all sorts of other things, but they didn't all tweet about their daily lives for everyone to see and record.

[unclebucknasty → mayneack]

But I don't think the "masses" have noticed or that it has become a social/political issue of nearly the magnitude that it's importance would suggest.

In fact, many who are aware of the changes even defend them as being necessary. They still don't notice the overall direction or net effect.

Some of the comments on this thread alone speak to that.