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So, "do our dirty work or we'll hit you with all the legal loopholes we can find". Lovely.

• leaveyou 12y ago
  consider that for years before 1989 and after, there was this intense campaign against STASI, KGB, Securitate and other eastern European intelligence services who served the "Evil Empire" and which were using their power to oppress, had millions of informants, were planting microphones in people's houses at the smallest suspicion and were recording any conversations they could. And now you realize the "free world" uses the same methods or worse.
• pixl97 12y ago
  Outside of computers this has been going on for decades in the FBI/ATF's drug and gun business. This is and has been the modus operandi for at least 30 year (that I know of) and probably far longer, and it works well. Get caught with a joint and they'll try to stick distribution on you (with 10+ year sentences) unless you narc someone out. Some with gun violations, they will think of 10s or 100s of very questionable charges and place them against you, threaten jail time in the centuries. Reminds me of the Aaron swartz case.
• buckbova 12y ago
  You know the saying, "If you can't join us, we'll beat you."