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As much as it's tempting to equate the Mirror to communist governments like East Germany, an article posted at least slightly tongue-in-cheek in a British newsp
by CamouflagedKiwi 8y ago
As much as it's tempting to equate the Mirror to communist governments like East Germany, an article posted at least slightly tongue-in-cheek in a British newspaper is not the same thing as a guide provided to police in a police state.
- microtherion 8y agoSecret police records in former East Germany are subject to an unusual degree of transparency, because many of them were seized and subsequently made public after the wall fell. We don't really know what the archives of western states would show if subjected to comparable scrutiny (to the limited extent those archives were made available, e.g. in Switzerland, they show an appalling amount of surveillance, though a comparatively limited amount and degree of repression).
- sverige 8y agoImagine what we'd discover if we could see the secret archives of Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Twitter.