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That's quite a claim. Right now the NSA holds privileged information for millions of Americans. What happens if one of those people becomes some populist polit
by drzaiusapelord 13y ago
That's quite a claim. Right now the NSA holds privileged information for millions of Americans. What happens if one of those people becomes some populist political entity. It would be trivial for the NSA to leak dirt of any kind (sexual fetishes, hangups, private emails to wife, other private things that when taken to the public would look bad, trash talking others, etc) to help discredit this person. Imagine that this person ran on a platform for cutting down the NSA or reforming the intelligence agencies. How "protected" do you think this "metadata" would be?
The Chinese wouldn't do that to me. They don't have a dog in this fight.
- largehotcoffee 13y agoThat's quite a claim.
- jlgreco 13y agoUS Government agencies using "dirt" to smear and/or blackmail populist political figures is a historic fact.
- rallison 13y agoExactly. See Martin Luther King Jr [0] as an example. Private information obtained through surveillance was leaked by government agencies in an attempt to discredit him. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.#FBI_and_King.27s_personal_life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.#FBI_an...
- rfnslyr 13y agoIt would have also been "quite a claim" awhile back about the NSA collecting anything and everything about citizens. I don't get your comment.
- drzaiusapelord 13y agoI know a lot of Snowden's and Assanges' sex life and many, many personal details. I've never actively seeked out that information. Also, the US has proven experience in smearing political characters. Heck, even John fucking Lennon had an FBI file full of personal information.
- n09n 13y agoThey don't have a dog in that fight because you specifically chose the fight to make that true. If the same person ran on a different platform that argued for, say, boycotting or tariffing Chinese green energy products in order to build up local industries, the Chinese would care but the NSA would not.