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Poppycock. Give me some "good reasons" why spying on the private lives of citizens of ally countries is not an act of terrorism?

• dragonwriter 13y ago
  > Give me some "good reasons" why spying on the private lives of citizens of ally countries is not an act of terrorism? Because terrorism is the use of violence or threat of violence directed at civilian populations or otherwise outside the generally accepted norms of warfare to effect political change, and spying, while it may support the use or threat of violence, is, in and of itself, neither the use nor threat of violence.
  • marcosdumay 13y ago
    Well, is blackmail a kind of violence? (honest question)
    • dragonwriter 13y ago
      Doesn't really matter, because as with violence (or “other forms of violence”, if you prefer), spying isn’t blackmail, even if it might be used to support blackmail.
      • marcosdumay 13y ago
        Spying is as good a "threat of blackmail" as one can get.