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Re:Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in... by FussyZeus on Monday November 04, 2019 @10:48AM (#21442682)
> Things like National Security letters and the PATRIOT act make the US to me, as a European, seem very hypocritical right now.

These are not even remotely comparable. China is an outright police state. Not saying the United States doesn't have a lot of work to do with regards to personal liberty, but the Government here has nothing close to the iron grip control that the CCP has; they may want it, and what Government doesn't, but they don't have it and a ton of our internal legal mechanisms are designed specifically to prevent it.

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Re:Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in... by elefanten on Monday November 04, 2019 @01:47PM (#21444936)
Indeed. False equivalence is the oxygen of these discussions.

We should be able to discuss America's governance failures and problem areas without conflating them with horribly regressive models of governance.

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