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Re:Google Also Has Been Ordered to Help Unlock Phones, Recor... by the_ancient on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @08:50PM (#11394220)
Even if someone would present such a case there would be soo little tangible evidence and many other "more plausible" theories as to why the person disappeared it would be simply dismissed as a conspiracy

People want to reject the idea their government is immoral, so they do...

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Re:Google Also Has Been Ordered to Help Unlock Phones, Recor... by bcook on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @09:02PM (#11394272)
Most respectable people are reliable and have numerous responsibilities. If such a person disappears, people would notice... many people.
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Re:Google Also Has Been Ordered to Help Unlock Phones, Recor... by the_ancient on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @09:21PM (#11394361)
I am sure they would... At any given time there are ~90,000 people missing in the US, annually something like 250,000 missing person cases are opened.

The charge is not that they would be disappeared and no one would miss them...

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Re:Google Also Has Been Ordered to Help Unlock Phones, Recor... by bcook on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @09:32PM (#11394407)
Clarification: I said that somebody would notice, not that somebody would care. (fact vs emotion)

Cite your source.

I am skeptical by relying on the "six degrees of separation" theory... I literally know nobody who has ever known anyone (etc) that has been "disappeared".

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Re:Google Also Has Been Ordered to Help Unlock Phones, Recor... by the_ancient on Thursday March 31, 2016 @04:54AM (#11395843)
>>Clarification: I said that somebody would notice, not that somebody would care.

Then I fail to see what your point it, the entire point of "someone would notice" would imply that would be a deterrent to prevent or give pause to the US Government disappearing someone. This would necessitate people caring.

Further, in order for many many people to notice like you said, a good portion of them must care enough to spread that info.. Unless you are thinking the only people that would be disappeared would be someone like Tim Cook, or other High Level person, no it more likely would be some unnamed programmer, or researcher.. not a CEO of a Fortune 100 company who is of no actual value to the US Government.

>>Cite your source.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/09/23/mis...

>>I literally know nobody who has ever known anyone (etc) that has been "disappeared".

Are you saying people do not disappear.. Government connection not with standing? All of the missing persons world wide are simply false?

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