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Government surveillance from first world, liberal governments is not necessarily a bad thing. Surveillance by authoritarians focused on suppressing their popul
by some_random 7y ago
Government surveillance from first world, liberal governments is not necessarily a bad thing. Surveillance by authoritarians focused on suppressing their population and political enemies is a bad thing.
But yeah, I absolutely agree that the NSA et al are less damaging than Google and friends.
- saagarjha 7y agoThe reason we like first world, liberal governments is that we can collectively hold them accountable. It’s not clear that we can do so with the NSA.
- homonculus1 7y agoAny government activity conducted in secret is anti-democratic by definition. How can we ever hope to hold an agency accountable for policies that can't legally be disclosed?
- tehlike 7y agoIt only takes few years to switch from a liberal government to oppressive one