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You realize that the democratic spy agencies have to deal with China, Russia, and terrorists? So you would want us to hold ourselves to the highest standards, w
by randomopining 6y ago
You realize that the democratic spy agencies have to deal with China, Russia, and terrorists? So you would want us to hold ourselves to the highest standards, while they could play every dirty trick in the book and eventually take us over.
Then we lose our democracy that you and I both cherish.
Also these things don't even impact 99.999% of people.
- sjg007 6y agoWhat does spying on Americans have to do with China, Russia and terrorists (who are by definition foreign nationals)..?
- randomopining 6y agoDual citizen spies that infiltrate tech companies or the DOD? There’s plenty of those.
- webmobdev 6y agoSo everyone is presumed guilty until their innocence is proven? Does that sound like a working democracy or like China or Russia?
- randomopining 6y agoHow is a passive act of surveilling the same as being guilty? Passive surveilling (esp the mass metadata type) doesn't hurt anybody.
- webmobdev 6y ago> So you would want us to hold ourselves to the highest standards, while they could play every dirty trick in the book Yes. You want democratic values to survive over generations, not "democracies". Spying on your own citizens, to figure out how to manipulate them better through corporates, transfers the power from the people to select corporates and government. It upsets the balance of power that democracy promises. And is thus an attack on its very essence.