> once again the US has decided this is the hill it will die on. Nah. This is their standard playbook. If someone undermines them they bash them publicly wit

> once again the US has decided this is the hill it will die on. Nah. This is their standard playbook. If someone undermines them they bash them publicly with a rubber hose, for decades. Maybe it's as an example to others. The most egregious example of this I've come across is https://fullmeasure.news/news/politics/encryption-battle https://fullmeasure.news/news/politics/encryption-battle but there are numerous others. And it seems in most cases, once this sort of behaviour is brought before a USA judge it's squashed, but before immense damage done has extracted the pound of flesh they appear to be after. So it's not the entire system that's rotten, just some apples within it. Clearly, this sort of harassment is illegal. Ebay was a recent example, and they were prosecuted with the full force of the law. Nonetheless these rotten apples, who seem to be within the security apparatus (the CIA and NSA) seem to know how to work the system so they can get away with this with no personal repercussions on them. Until you yankees fix that, this is going to keep happening.