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To be fair, your government should be working to protect you from foreign threats like this. You should not rely on foreign powers to protect you.
by betterunix 13y ago
To be fair, your government should be working to protect you from foreign threats like this. You should not rely on foreign powers to protect you.
- RyanMcGreal 13y agoBelieve me, I'm not happy that my government is all-in on the American mass surveillance game. But my specific concern here is with Americans who think it's okay for the US government to conduct mass surveillance on the rest of the planet, just not on Americans.
- drivingmenuts 13y agoBecause we never know where the next threat will come from, or perhaps the threat after that. Your country may be perfectly at peace with the US now, but there is no way to guarantee that peace unless we have people to continually watch for potential threats. Even that is, in itself, no guarantee, but it's better than nothing. Maybe someday, mankind will be able to share universal goodwill and peace, but until that time, trust, but verify, at a minimum.
- jruthers 13y agoI call "Bullshit" on that. For all of the talk about "all men created equal" and "do to others as you would have them do to you", fundamentally Americans are brought up to believe they are different or "exceptional" to other humans. This belief let's them distort reality so that spying on innocent foreigners is ok but spying on innocent Americans is an abomination. Hypocrisy. Timothy McVeigh and others prove that the domestic threat to the US is as serious as the foreign.
- gurkendoktor 13y agoRight, but it's not an either-or thing.
- manish_gill 13y agoYep, because our government basically controls the majority of what goes on the Internet, right? /s