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Re:Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Throu... by fredgrott on Thursday March 07, 2019 @10:10AM (#19328589)
since when do we as a country track people over violence instead of say just oh doing an investigation of just asking wha5t happened? are we suddenly Communist China or Nazi Germany?
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Re:Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Throu... by krapp on Thursday March 07, 2019 @02:29PM (#19331318)
>are we suddenly Communist China or Nazi Germany?

Suddenly? No. This is the inevitable result of the normalization of authoritarianism, militarism and mass surveillance that began after 9/11.

I mean, we have a President who outright calls the press enemies of the people, and half the country agrees with him, and most of the rest just dismiss it as Trump being an angry crazy man. That's how far the Overton window has been pushed towards protofascism in the US.

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Re:Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Throu... by azeotropic on Friday March 08, 2019 @02:25PM (#19341228)
How do you do investigations if you aren't allowed to question suspects and witnesses and keep records of them? I'm really perplexed by this stance.
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