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A comment on Baseless Calls to Expand Surveillance Fit Familiar, Cynical Pattern. Parent comment

Re:Baseless Calls to Expand Surveillance Fit Familiar, Cynic... by hokkos on Friday November 20, 2015 @11:41AM (#10602105)
For now it seems that terrorist attacks made more impact on social fabric than US or French surveillance.
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Re:Baseless Calls to Expand Surveillance Fit Familiar, Cynic... by loup-vaillant on Friday November 20, 2015 @12:00PM (#10602247)
Well, they did enable government to implement those surveillance programs. It was already in the works, but terrorism is a wonderful pretext (along with paedophilia, Nazism, and starving authors).
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