> 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 survi

> 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.