“What is particularly worrisome is when it sort of takes on this existential good versus evil quality and references to those kinds of things,” he said.
I really like this sentence because it expresses concerns of matter that people take into consideration. When something could be so simple could be taken into a greater depth of useless banter. Good vs evil is a big factor people decide if something is trustworthy or not. Good = Trust and Evil = No Trust?
Can the government be trusted with privacy?
The first thing that popped into my head was a clickbait title or more like a pull you in strategy. A very interesting question that can get lots of replies that can have a variety of answers to. But trying to trust something so big and so secretive can be very hard for some. How can one trust the source?
have been tipped off to the bills by a handful of websites and organizations that stoke fear with speculation and misinformation.
Sources are one of the most important things that we have about knowledge. From the infinite internet of many things and other organizations being their also. Many topics will be pushed from all perspectives from a lot of people.
they incorrectly believed
A concept that I covered in "Notebook 1". Misunderstanding or receiving false information about something unless proven wrong from the source. Sometimes we are fighting each other on a topic we agree on or understand, but from different perspectives.
New Testament’s Book of Revelation
Input of religious belief has been expressed here to reinforce their side of the argument. When people have strong beliefs that can usually sway other people's opinion. The reason I say these things is to show how people can already accept or decline some topics.