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It's totally fucked up. By the same reasoning ("national security"), any country that hasn't already can and will now sooner or later ban US-dominated social ne
by tannhaeuser 6y ago
It's totally fucked up. By the same reasoning ("national security"), any country that hasn't already can and will now sooner or later ban US-dominated social networks, especially when networks as they exist benefitted from US antitrust turning a blind eye towards large scale purchases. The EU court of justice has just ruled against "safe harbour" arguing that personal data can be turned over to US authorities without due process. Pulling a "deal you can't decline" also won't exactly help mutual investments.
I believe the gravity of this hasn't been appreciated yet.
- Fjolsvith 6y agoSomehow I get the impression that this will kill FiveEyes, which was abused by a recent administration, if I'm not mistaken.
- shadowgovt 6y agoFiveEyes is an awful lot more than social media observation. Don't need to care about social media if you've tapped email services.
- Fjolsvith 6y agoTrue, but what I'm talking about is asking another country to spy on your citizens for you so you don't have to violate the law. Wink-wink style. An open mind that considers other viewpoints is one that can outplay opponents. Literal thinkers can be led in circles.
- shadowgovt 6y agoI'm talking about the same thing. For example, it's illegal for the NSA or CIA to harvest emails between American citizens. But it's not illegal for the UK to do so, and it's already understood how they did it in the past to Google users by tapping inter-datacenter connections (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...), then feeding that data back to the NSA as a FiveEyes partner.