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You talk like these organisations are one coherent whole having meetings to plot how to best exploit German citizens. It's entirely possible, and probably desir

You talk like these organisations are one coherent whole having meetings to plot how to best exploit German citizens. It's entirely possible, and probably desirable, to have a government containing on group trying to protect citizen's privacy while another has reasons not to - where those roles overlap you should at least in theory have debate within government as to who takes precedence. In this non-ideal world that may not happen, but its better than not even making that possible.

sillygeese 11y ago
Do you think that's a satisfactory situation though? Suppose that there actually is a group within the government that's genuinely trying to protect us. Even so, the organization they'd be protecting us from is the exact same one they're part of. How does that make sense? It's like there's a pack of wolves next to a herd of sheep, and one of the wolves is like: "Guys? Guyyys? Can we just not eat them please?" In reality, governments are hell-bent on monitoring everything we do, because that's a great way to cement their power over us. Dictators don't arrange elections, and the most productive slave is one who thinks he's free. That's a large part of why the whole world isn't under complete tyranny right now. Try protesting anything any government does though, and the response will be tear gas and batons. That shows exactly how many fucks they give about our well-being or wishes. (Recent examples: Hong Kong, Brazil, Venezuela etc)