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Aren't we Five Eyes nation members all affected by this? The U.S. should pull out of this. We need to re-assert privacy rights and avoid trade as much as possib
by chrisco255 5y ago
Aren't we Five Eyes nation members all affected by this? The U.S. should pull out of this. We need to re-assert privacy rights and avoid trade as much as possible with any countries that enact these kind of laws.
- burlesona 5y agoSuch as the US largest trade partner, China?
- chrisco255 5y agoChina is number 3 behind Mexico and Canada. We do import more crap from there than anywhere else though: https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/highlights/toppartners.html https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/highlights/t... But yes, we can't cut the cord fast enough. Still, trade is another matter than shared mass surveillance. If the USG is sharing our data with the CCP, I'd very much want some people fired and perhaps jailed over it.
- bogota 5y agoIm getting the feeling our government’s have switched to economy over everything mode with a dash of pretend to care about the environment
- HenryKissinger 5y agoIf by "our" you mean Western governments, Western countries are all democracies. If Western governments have switched to economy over everything mode, that's because that's what the electorate wants.
- AlexCoventry 5y agoBest read in a smug Bavarian accent.
- bogota 5y agoMy family is pretty politically diverse and I would say none of them are ever happy with that is going on over the last 10+ years outside of a few things. Its just people making a choice about what they hate less.
- denkmoon 5y agoIf only. Lining their pockets and the pockets of their kingmakers is the only objective, the rest is theater. Economic improvement for the masses is merely a byproduct.
- _kbh_ 5y agoUS will never pull out of FVEY the reach they get is the main reason they started the alliance. The US doesn’t need massive overseas bases in places where it may not be possible or feasible when it has partners like Australia and New Zealand.
- d_t_w 5y agoFour eyes spying on your citizens and sending reports back to your intelligence agency is sort of the point of Five Eyes (well, one of the points). It ain't cheating if you're not spying on your own people.
- chrisco255 5y agoWe can redefine it that way. Time to re-assert our sovereignty.
- xvector 5y agoThe US will not pull out of Five Eyes because it enables the US to circumvent the constitutional rights of its own citizens via proxy. This has been used in multiple high-profile cases to catch cybercriminals. The government does not give back power it manages to hoard for itself. This is the fundamental problem with modern progressive liberalism and anti-choice conservatism. When you give the government power, it WILL use said power against you. Not a single government in human history has not turned on its citizens.