Re:Internet Vulnerability Takes Down Google
by S_A_P on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @09:09AM
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This is true, and Im not in support of wholesale surveillance with out reasonable cause and the associated court documents. That said, I don't think I would want to go to Russia or China and say, google "How to overthrow the government". I would expect someone would want to speak with me pretty quickly after I did that...
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Re:Internet Vulnerability Takes Down Google
by okmokmz on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @09:58AM
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>That said, I don't think I would want to go to Russia or China and say, google "How to overthrow the government". I would expect someone would want to speak with me pretty quickly after I did that...
That doesn't mean the US isn't performing the same level of surveillance/tracking, just that they aren't publicly picking up dissenters. In reality, if they were really worried, they'd hit you with a gag order and charge you in the FISA courts so you can't go public
https://freedom.press/news/revealed-justice-depts-secret-rul...
Re:Internet Vulnerability Takes Down Google
by vkazanov on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @09:20AM
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I suspect that in every relatively developed country nowadays executing systematic requests of the kind you mentioned would get you some kind of personal attention.
That's why they invented it, right? To make sure the political status quo does not change. That includes political systems in the US, UK, China and Russia.