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Before I respond, just want to say I am trying to be respectful, and not start a flame war. I value the high quality discussion that happens on HN > That’s lik
by snisarenko 7y ago
Before I respond, just want to say I am trying to be respectful, and not start a flame war. I value the high quality discussion that happens on HN
> That’s like, just your opinion, man.
It is my opinion that if any siting president (of any party) can abuse FISA court to spy on an opponents presidential campaign, the US democracy is in trouble
> Hungary established dictatorship
> See, this one actually did fundamentally change how government works.
Spying on a presidential campaign is in my opinion a fundamental change in how US government works.
- labster 7y agoI'm not trying to start a flame war either. I'm worried about the same things you are. But I also talk to people that don't read the news, and this is the kind of thing they will never care about because it doesn't affect their lives. Some other people say that Obama spied on Trump's campaign, so nothing is new here and therefore democracy isn't changing. Trump is bad, sure. But he doesn't do anything like Orbán did. I don't even think he's smart enough to do it. A EU country becoming a dictatorship is a watershed moment that will have repercussions for decades. A US House report will be relegated to a sentence in high school history books in the best case. Can you not see that one is of more interest to hackers than the other? For reals?