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Imagine yourself in Dropbox's shoes. Do you personally want to go to jail for fighting for freedom against NSA, or do you prefer to move from this country to an
by oleganza 13y ago
Imagine yourself in Dropbox's shoes. Do you personally want to go to jail for fighting for freedom against NSA, or do you prefer to move from this country to another (where some other agency will fuck you the same way)?
When people focus their disappointment on companies that are forced to comply you get civil war while the real aggressor is just laughing at you. Let's instead focus on how government got so much brutal power, how can we possibly reduce it and prevent from increasing again in the future. That's the real issue here.
- nodata 13y agoThe OP doesn't have a problem understanding _why_ Dropbox has done this, he is highlighting the fact that this transparency report is definitely not a transparency report, and is therefore useless.
- huhtenberg 13y agoYou are missing the point. If a company publishes a "Transparency Report" that is woefully incomplete, they shouldn't call it a "Transparency Report", should they now? They effectively fudge the numbers to make things look better than they are.
- StavrosK 13y agoWhen the alternative is to not post the report at all, I think I'll take the chance.
- oleganza 13y agoI agree. However, it's called "Transparency Report" and not "This is the best we can tell you to avoid jail" to avoid jail. Alternative would be not to publish anything. Any freedom-fighting statement (while straight to the point and honorable) is a quick suicide. Point me to a business in US which openly opposes core government institutions and does well.
- jasonlotito 13y agoSo your complaint is that they didn't name it well enough? Not that they didn't make it clear in several places that this doesn't include national security requests, of which they are legally obligated not to provide.
- lotsofcows 13y agoAre things either completely transparent or opaque? Can I still call my motorbike's windscreen so, even though it only blocks a very small mount of wind? Should people below median height be allowed to say how "tall" they are?
- phaer 13y ago"or do you prefer to move from this country to another (where some other agency will fuck you the same way)?" Im sorry, but that won't happen to you in a lot of other countries. Even with data retention in the european union there's still no such thing as NSL in most european countries.
- oleganza 13y agoIn another country you are a foreigner which means you have much more troubles with the government and less freedom than local citizens.