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Not sure if this is the position you're asking about, but my position is that surveillance of foreigners is far less of a problem than of citizens in any state.
by Peaker 13y ago
Not sure if this is the position you're asking about, but my position is that surveillance of foreigners is far less of a problem than of citizens in any state. Surveillance of local citizens can be abused to destroy democracy, whereas that of foreigners cannot be. Citizens need to be protected from their own government which holds tremendous power over them, but less so w.r.t foreign government.
- mpyne 13y agoNah, I'm referring to people who say that domestic surveillance from their own nation's spy agency is better than being spied on by NSA (despite their being 'foreign' to the NSA). Although the reasoning you mention is a better way to express one of the points I was trying to make.
- dictum 13y ago>Citizens need to be protected from their own government which holds tremendous power over them, but less so w.r.t foreign government. The US certainly holds less power over foreigners, but the CIA's job is to blur the distinction between citizens and foreigners, and the CIA operates with essentially no oversight or restrictions aside from its budget.