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It's cheap propaganda for internal purposes. Everyone spies on everyone. Like there are, IDK, Czech Republic spies in the US. Discovery of "friendly" spies is h
by H8crilA 3y ago
It's cheap propaganda for internal purposes. Everyone spies on everyone. Like there are, IDK, Czech Republic spies in the US. Discovery of "friendly" spies is handled gracefully - no one gets killed, no one gets jumped in a back alley by unidentified perpetrators, and no one even goes to prison. That is assuming you don't turn the spies around to work for you.
I don't get it why this is on HN, it is not particularly significant and it is definitely not related to tech.
- mettamage 3y agoI mostly agree with your comment. However, HN isn’t only about tech. HN is about fascination for the world from a scientific angle. Most on HN are techies, so that explains its tech bias. “anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.” [1] “Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.” ^ This does not justify the current topic that strongly. It does justify the fascination for the world from a science perspective angle. It also corroborates your part about stating it’s not particularly significant. For me, the good faith view of all of this IMO is that having a discussion about friendly states spying on each other with this crowd is interesting enough. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- threeseed 3y agoBut there is nothing new or intellectual about this. Expelling diplomats is about as minor and inconsequential event as you can get.
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