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You can not compare our situation to that of the DDR. If there is more surveillance going on than we currently know, it is certainly not as much as in that time
by chki 11y ago
You can not compare our situation to that of the DDR. If there is more surveillance going on than we currently know, it is certainly not as much as in that time -- a big chunk of the population were reporting to the "Ministerium für Staatssicherheit" directly, which was a well known fact.
- CamperBob2 11y agoI believe this is known as the "Special Pleading Fallacy." Of course, you could play the "Slippery Slope Fallacy" card against my argument... but we're not dealing with logical entities, are we? We're dealing with often-irrational human beings and governments composed of them.