Made in China, Exported to the World: The Surveillance State

Re:Made in China, Exported to the World: The Surveillance State by Cyph0n on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @08:37AM (#19737729)

Ah, the good old Western pundit view of the Egyptian revolution. I was waiting for this!

There had to be a coup? What happened to elections? And it is unfair to omit the fact that said coup involved a brutal massacre.

If you don’t deny that the elections were free and fair, then it is none of your business who the citizens of a sovereign state decide to elect. This is democracy 101.

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Re:Made in China, Exported to the World: The Surveillance State by pjc50 on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:25AM (#19738621)

I appreciate that this all looks a bit Allende, but the MB government collapsed from within due to popular protest. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-mistakes-specialrep...

> it is none of your business who the citizens of a sovereign state decide to elect.

This rather depends on what the new government is actually doing and whether it's getting people killed in the street again.

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