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I was just about to get on this thread and post about how reasonable and measured his response was. Your comment is one of the better ones I've read on this who
by sriramk 13y ago
I was just about to get on this thread and post about how reasonable and measured his response was. Your comment is one of the better ones I've read on this whole topic.
- mtgx 13y agoHow can you still believe that guy anymore? He could be petting bunnies, while he sings with an angel's voice about how they're protecting the nation and that their spying is really not that bad - and I wouldn't believe him. Obama's promises sounded very compelling and believable, too - until we learned the facts of his actions after he already won his 2nd mandate. I think it's important to remember that whenever you hear a politician speaking nicely without anything real to back it up. Otherwise we'd doomed to repeat the same mistakes, over and over and over again, fooled by master actors.
- chris_wot 13y agoI'm an Australian. Obama is the most disappointing politician I've ever seen. He talks of Hope, then he takes it away. He talks of Freedom, but doesn't allow it. That's very sad.
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- tptacek 13y agoAustralia has significantly worse Internet regulation than the US.
- chopin 13y agoWith ubiquitous surveillance, there is only little need for regulation.
- chris_wot 13y agoAnd? My disappointment with my own government does not mean that I can't be disappointed with the leader of the "Free World" - one that is increasingly monitoring its own citizens, much like a totalitarian state would. If this is how it goes in the United States, and the U.S. is held up as the standard for freedom, how is that good for the rest of the world?