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He's not at the airport. This is a PRIVATE communication between two individuals. It's absurd that this power is available to a government.
by dwaltrip 11y ago
He's not at the airport. This is a PRIVATE communication between two individuals. It's absurd that this power is available to a government.
- FireBeyond 11y agoWhere private is defined as "financial transaction through an intermediary who is bound by several laws regarding the laundering or potential illegal use of money".
- dwaltrip 11y agoI understand your point. However, this is the modern way of physically handing $10 bucks you owe to your friend. Similarly, a private e-mail, which is now scanned and indexed by the government along with everyone else's e-mail, is the modern equivalent of sending snail mail 50 years ago, in which there was 0% chance any higher power would have read and catalogued your letter. We shouldn't have to live in the past because the government takes advantage of technological progress with massive power grabs. The potential for devastating abuse is so great. Imagine how this power would have been abused over the past century, if it existed then.