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Re:Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.? by adev_ on Saturday September 28, 2019 @02:09PM (#21101880)
> Disagree on hypocrisy. US still affords significant freedoms and largely respects human rights.

If you are US citizen maybe, for the rest of the world. Definitively not.

Without being a lawyer, I'm pretty sure random drone strike on civilians in Pakistan, torture in Guantanamo or intercepting entire world communication is not an example of "respect of humans rights".

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Re:Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.? by GordonS on Saturday September 28, 2019 @02:27PM (#21102010)
> Without being a lawyer, I'm pretty sure random drone strike on civilian in Pakistan, torture in Guantanamo or intercepting entire world communication is an example of "respect of humans rights"

This is a good point, I think. The US has an appalling record on human rights (aside from your examples, arming terrorists and overthrowing democratically elected governments spring to mind) - as long as we're talking about the rights of non-Americans.

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