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Inquiry launches into Polish ex-government's 'Pegasus' spying
- eurekin 3y agoPole here. I expect the long tradition of the dedicated committee sucking off public funds for years without any result to be upheld :)
- hiddencost 3y agoThere's strong motivation to deliver results here. Nailing your political opponents to the wall.
- me_me_me 3y agoThey did illegal spying on opposition and press. That's scary stuff for a government and should be curbed harshly
- bboygravity 3y agoBut when the same (except worse) happened through Twitter in the US it suddenly counted as "normal national security doings". See Twitter files. Interesting.
- macintux 3y agoEarlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39422399 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39422399
- moneytide1 3y agoIt is ironically because of his surveillance that Truman Burbank is able to "break the Sixth Wall". The distant observer must also have the capacity to discern what is being seen. A type of pride before the fall - to disperse priority directives according to information gathered from the "correct" side of a two-way mirror.