[justinmk]

I agree, but it's inevitable. The state has claimed all conceivable cut-points or transitions:

- Transportation. Any time you want to go somewhere by car or plane (and potentially bus/train[1]), the government has decided it has the right to search you.

- Interstate commerce. Most economic activity is taxed, and may be searched passively or actively to ensure that the state gets everything it wants.

- Communication. TV, radio, telephone, and now the internet are monitored and adjusted by the state.

Brain-to-network communication will eventually be commoditized, and the state will transitively invent some justification for monitoring it. Thus you may think thoughts which are shared with the network and for which you will be held liable.

The only difference is that today you type the thoughts on a keyboard.

I wrote an essay about this in 2011, for university.

[1] http://news.antiwar.com/2010/11/25/napolitano-eyes-full-body...