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It's a criminal scheme to spy on law enforcement. Both the company and the scheming country are committing crimes.
by coliveira 1y ago
It's a criminal scheme to spy on law enforcement. Both the company and the scheming country are committing crimes.
- dummydummy1234 1y agoCan a country commit a crime?
- marcosdumay 1y agoNo, it's the government that commits it. People use the country = government metaphor as a shortcut for communication, but this one takes it further than usual.
- blharr 1y ago> country = government metaphor This will probably never be particularly useful, but this figure of speech is a "synecdoche" (a "metonymy" instead of a "metaphor")
- brookst 1y agoAs long as we’re being pedantic, synecdoche means referring to part as the whole (nice wheels = car, nice threads = clothes). Saying the US did something when referring to the government is metonymy, but not synecdoche.
- StackRanker3000 1y agoA synecdoche can either be when you use a part to represent the whole, or conversely use the whole to represent a part I think it’s valid to consider the US government a part of the US. Thus, referring to the US government when saying that the US did something is a synecdoche
- largbae 1y agoExtradition by tectonic subduction
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- dodomodo 1y agospy on law enforcement that spy on your government, seem like a fair game
- Frieren 1y agoThis is not about spying, but fighting money laundering, persecuting war criminals, even common crimes. To spy on law enforcement that is trying to fight crime is not a good thing. Israel is not the world police.
- yehat 1y agoDoes that apply for China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Brazil and so on?
- BeFlatXIII 1y agoThat's how competition works, yes.