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>A pop star turned political sensation, Bobi Wine, had returned from Washington with U.S. backing for his opposition movement, and Uganda’s cyber-surveillance u
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 7y ago
>A pop star turned political sensation, Bobi Wine, had returned from Washington with U.S. backing for his opposition movement, and Uganda’s cyber-surveillance unit had strict orders to intercept his encrypted communications, using the broad powers of a 2010 law that gives the government the ability “to secure its multidimensional interests.”
I suspect that most countries would try to intercept the communications of an opposition candidate that was openly backed by a foreign power.
- justicezyx 7y agoThe assumption of the author and many people or even majority is that backing by USA is not only legitimate, it's also morally superior.
- TaylorAlexander 7y agoWell the US is good. All other governments are suspect.
- devoply 7y agoYes the bugs are bad, would you like to hear more?
- TaylorAlexander 7y agoI’m thinking of enlisting. I really want to have a baby.
- pryce 7y agoThe obvious ethical territory here isn't particularly difficult: deploring both the US action (in this case political interference) and the Huawei/CCP interference (political interference via an attack on civil liberties). Commentators who are only interested in critiquing rival states ought to be viewed as discrediting themselves.
- mlindner 7y agoYou realize you're defending a government that illegally shot and attacked the person in question and then arrested and tortured him, right? After which he was released and fled back to the US for medical treatment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kyagulanyi_Ssentamu#Arrest_and_release https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kyagulanyi_Ssentamu#Arr...
- deogeo 7y agoDefending the specific act of spying on foreign political influence isn't the same as defending the entire government, or even other actions related to that spying (such as the torture you mentioned). By this logic, if someone 'bad' does anything, that anything can be claimed to be sinister and unreasonable, and any statements otherwise are "defending someone bad".
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- bobsil1 7y ago>I suspect that most countries would try to intercept the communications of an opposition candidate that was openly backed by a foreign power We still haven't seen the Trump-Russia/KSA/UAE intercepts…