privocrat
privocrat
noun US (esp in neo-conservative thought) a person who is not in favour of relinquishing individual freedoms in order to give the state more powers to combat terrorism [a blend of privacy and -crat, modelled on technocrat, etc]
noun US (esp in neo-conservative thought) a person who is not in favour of relinquishing individual freedoms in order to give the state more powers to combat terrorism [a blend of privacy and -crat, modelled on technocrat, etc]
The privocrats only grudgingly acknowledge that terrorism exists, and they never concede that a gain in the public good may justify a concession in 'privacy' (City Journal)
| prison-white, pretox, pranking | |
| pro-ana, pro-mia, promatorium |
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